qemu/docs
John Snow 03947c80ce docs/qapi-domain: add type cross-refs to field lists
This commit, finally, adds cross-referencing support to various field
lists; modeled tightly after Sphinx's own Python domain code.

Cross-referencing support is added to type names provided to :arg:,
:memb:, :returns: and :choice:.

:feat:, :error: and :value:, which do not take type names, do not
support this syntax.

The general syntax is simple:

:arg TypeName ArgName: Lorem Ipsum ...

The domain will transform TypeName into :qapi:type:`TypeName` in this
basic case, and also apply the ``literal`` decoration to indicate that
this is a type cross-reference.

For optional arguments, the special "?" suffix is used. Because "*" has
special meaning in rST that would cause parsing errors, we elect to use
"?" instead. The special syntax processing strips this character from
the end of any type name argument and will append ", optional" to the
rendered output, applying the cross-reference only to the actual type
name.

The intent here is that the actual syntax in doc-blocks need not change;
but e.g. qapidoc.py will need to process and transform "@arg foo lorem
ipsum" into ":arg type? foo: lorem ipsum" based on the schema
information. Therefore, nobody should ever actually witness this
intermediate syntax unless they are writing manual documentation or the
doc transmogrifier breaks.

For array arguments, type names can similarly be surrounded by "[]",
which are stripped off and then re-appended outside of the
cross-reference.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250311034303.75779-28-jsnow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
2025-03-11 10:10:57 +01:00
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_templates docs: Add QEMU version information to HTML footer 2021-07-18 10:59:47 +01:00
about vfio queue: 2025-03-07 07:39:21 +08:00
config vl: recognize audiodev groups in configuration files 2023-09-22 17:35:11 +02:00
devel * scripts: dump stdin on meson-buildoptions error 2025-03-10 13:40:05 +08:00
interop docs/devel: add a codebase section 2025-01-17 10:45:49 +00:00
specs docs/specs: Add aspeed-intc 2025-03-09 14:36:53 +01:00
sphinx docs/qapi-domain: add type cross-refs to field lists 2025-03-11 10:10:57 +01:00
sphinx-static docs/qapi-domain: add :ifcond: directive option 2025-03-11 10:10:57 +01:00
spin docs: create config/, devel/ and spin/ subdirectories 2017-06-07 18:22:03 +02:00
system hw/vmapple/vmapple: Add vmapple machine type 2025-03-04 14:45:34 +01:00
tools qemu-nbd: Allow users to adjust handshake limit 2025-02-11 13:45:46 -06:00
user docs/user: Document the %d placeholder and suspend=n QEMU_GDB features 2025-02-10 13:47:59 +00:00
block-replication.txt docs/block-replication.txt: Fix replication top-id command demo 2021-12-17 11:35:00 +01:00
bypass-iommu.txt docs: Add documentation for iommu bypass 2021-07-16 11:10:45 -04:00
COLO-FT.txt chardev: finalize 'reconnect' deprecation 2024-10-28 14:37:25 +08:00
colo-proxy.txt colo: examples: remove mentions of script= and (wrong) downscript= 2024-01-30 21:20:20 +03:00
conf.py docs/qapi-domain: add warnings for malformed field lists 2025-03-11 10:10:57 +01:00
defs.rst.inc docs: Fix typo in the default name of the qemu-system-x86_64 binary 2021-04-01 14:28:39 +02:00
glossary.rst docs: add a glossary 2025-01-17 10:45:54 +00:00
igd-assign.txt vfio/pci: Add IGD documentation 2016-05-26 11:12:05 -06:00
image-fuzzer.txt docs: Render binary names as monospaced text 2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
index.rst docs: add a glossary 2025-01-17 10:45:54 +00:00
memory-hotplug.txt docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
meson.build 9p: remove 'proxy' filesystem backend driver 2024-10-03 19:33:25 +02:00
multi-thread-compression.txt docs tests: Fix use of migrate_set_parameter 2023-09-08 13:08:52 +03:00
multiseat.txt docs: Spell QEMU all caps 2021-11-19 10:16:58 +01:00
nvdimm.txt docs/nvdimm: Update nvdimm option value in machine example 2021-09-27 10:57:21 +02:00
pci_expander_bridge.txt docs, tests: do not specify scsi=off 2024-06-05 11:00:56 +02:00
pcie.txt docs/pcie.txt: Replace ioh3420 with pcie-root-port 2023-01-28 06:21:30 -05:00
pcie_pci_bridge.txt docs: add slot when adding new PCIe root port 2021-07-03 03:12:35 -04:00
pcie_sriov.txt pcie_sriov: Ensure VF addr does not overflow 2025-02-20 18:23:19 -05:00
qcow2-cache.txt qcow2: Document the Extended L2 Entries feature 2020-08-25 08:33:20 +02:00
qdev-device-use.txt util: remove support -chardev tty and -chardev parport 2023-01-06 00:51:02 +01:00
qemu-option-trace.rst.inc qemu-option-trace.rst.inc: Don't use option:: markup 2020-11-02 16:52:18 +00:00
qemupciserial.inf docs: Grammar and spelling fixes 2018-07-13 10:16:04 +01:00
rdma.txt docs tests: Fix use of migrate_set_parameter 2023-09-08 13:08:52 +03:00
requirements.txt pythondeps.toml: warn about updates needed to docs/requirements.txt 2024-04-23 17:35:26 +02:00
spice-port-fqdn.txt docs: add spice-port-fqdn.txt 2012-12-17 14:01:41 +01:00
throttle.txt docs: Drop deprecated 'props' from object-add 2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
xbzrle.txt migrate: remove QMP/HMP commands for speed, downtime and cache size 2021-03-18 09:22:55 +00:00
xen-save-devices-state.txt Fix up dangling references to qmp-commands.* in comment and doc 2018-03-02 13:48:26 -06:00