qdev: Display warning about unused -global

This can help a user understand why -global was ignored.

For example: with "-vga cirrus"; "-global vga.vgamem_mb=16" is just
ignored when "-global cirrus-vga.vgamem_mb=16" is not.

This is currently clear when the wrong property is provided:

out/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -global cirrus-vga.vram_size_mb=16 -monitor pty -vga cirrus
char device redirected to /dev/pts/20 (label compat_monitor0)
qemu-system-x86_64: Property '.vram_size_mb' not found
Aborted (core dumped)

vs

out/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -global vga.vram_size_mb=16 -monitor pty -vga cirrus
char device redirected to /dev/pts/20 (label compat_monitor0)
VNC server running on `::1:5900'
^Cqemu: terminating on signal 2

Signed-off-by: Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Don Slutz 2014-05-05 14:03:06 -04:00 committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
parent eb386aaccc
commit 9f9260a3be
5 changed files with 45 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -955,6 +955,23 @@ void qdev_prop_register_global_list(GlobalProperty *props)
}
}
int qdev_prop_check_global(void)
{
GlobalProperty *prop;
int ret = 0;
QTAILQ_FOREACH(prop, &global_props, next) {
if (!prop->not_used) {
continue;
}
ret = 1;
error_report("Warning: \"-global %s.%s=%s\" not used",
prop->driver, prop->property, prop->value);
}
return ret;
}
void qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(DeviceState *dev, const char *typename,
Error **errp)
{
@ -966,6 +983,7 @@ void qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(DeviceState *dev, const char *typename,
if (strcmp(typename, prop->driver) != 0) {
continue;
}
prop->not_used = false;
object_property_parse(OBJECT(dev), prop->value, prop->property, &err);
if (err != NULL) {
error_propagate(errp, err);