Revert "qdev: Add help for property value"

This reverts commit 922910ce42.

The commit has four issues:

* When it runs from the monitor, e.g. "device_add e1000,mac=?", it
  prints to stderr instead of the monitor.

* Help looks to callers just like failed device creation.  This makes
  main() exit unsuccessfully on "-device e1000,mac=?".

* It has an undocumented side effect on -global: "-global e1000.mac=?"
  prints help, but only when we actually add an e1000 device.

* It does not work for properties that accept the value "?".

We need to do this differently.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Markus Armbruster 2010-01-29 19:48:58 +01:00 committed by Anthony Liguori
parent ff952ba25d
commit eecbb9fe6f

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@ -565,13 +565,8 @@ int qdev_prop_parse(DeviceState *dev, const char *name, const char *value)
return -1;
}
if (prop->info->parse(dev, prop, value) != 0) {
if (strcmp(value, "?") != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "property \"%s.%s\": failed to parse \"%s\"\n",
dev->info->name, name, value);
} else {
fprintf(stderr, "%s.%s=%s\n",
dev->info->name, name, prop->info->name);
}
fprintf(stderr, "property \"%s.%s\": failed to parse \"%s\"\n",
dev->info->name, name, value);
return -1;
}
return 0;