From 24ed11723230e43f44e9a1aef72e7c71714288d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Kardashevskiy Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 17:11:29 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] qom: Document qom/device-list-properties implementation specific The recently introduced qom-list-properties QMP command raised a question what properties it (and its cousin - device-list-properties) can possibly print - only those defined by DeviceClass::props or dynamically created in TypeInfo::instance_init() so properties created elsewhere won't show up and this behaviour might confuse the user. For example, PIIX4 does that from piix4_pm_realize() via piix4_pm_add_propeties(): object_property_add_uint8_ptr(OBJECT(s), ACPI_PM_PROP_ACPI_ENABLE_CMD, &acpi_enable_cmd, NULL); This adds a note to the command descriptions about the limitation. Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy Message-Id: <20180530071129.9013-1-aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- qapi/misc.json | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/qapi/misc.json b/qapi/misc.json index f5988cc0b5..efc3d23057 100644 --- a/qapi/misc.json +++ b/qapi/misc.json @@ -1529,6 +1529,10 @@ # # Returns: a list of ObjectPropertyInfo describing a devices properties # +# Note: objects can create properties at runtime, for example to describe +# links between different devices and/or objects. These properties +# are not included in the output of this command. +# # Since: 1.2 ## { 'command': 'device-list-properties', @@ -1542,6 +1546,10 @@ # # @typename: the type name of an object # +# Note: objects can create properties at runtime, for example to describe +# links between different devices and/or objects. These properties +# are not included in the output of this command. +# # Returns: a list of ObjectPropertyInfo describing object properties # # Since: 2.12