qemu/docs/devel
Markus Armbruster 08349786c8 qapi: Relax doc string @name: description indentation rules
The QAPI schema doc comment language provides special syntax for
command and event arguments, struct and union members, alternate
branches, enumeration values, and features: descriptions starting with
"@name:".

By convention, we format them like this:

    # @name: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,
    #        sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore
    #        magna aliqua.

Okay for names as short as "name", but we have much longer ones.  Their
description gets squeezed against the right margin, like this:

    # @dirty-sync-missed-zero-copy: Number of times dirty RAM synchronization could
    #                               not avoid copying dirty pages. This is between
    #                               0 and @dirty-sync-count * @multifd-channels.
    #                               (since 7.1)

The description text is effectively just 50 characters wide.  Easy
enough to read, but can be cumbersome to write.

The awkward squeeze against the right margin makes people go beyond it,
which produces two undesirables: arguments about style, and descriptions
that are unnecessarily hard to read, like this one:

    # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU.  This is
    #                           only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability
    #                           is enabled. (Since 3.0)

We could instead format it like

    # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime:
    # list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU.  This is only present
    # when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is
    # enabled. (Since 3.0)

or, since the commit before previous, like

    # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime:
    # 	  list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU.  This is only present
    # 	  when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is
    # 	  enabled. (Since 3.0)

However, I'd rather have

    # @postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU.
    #     This is only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration
    #     capability is enabled.  (Since 3.0)

because this is how rST field and option lists work.

To get this, we need to let the first non-blank line after the
"@name:" line determine expected indentation.

This fills up the indentation pitfall mentioned in
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst.  A related pitfall still exists.  Update
the text to show it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230428105429.1687850-14-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
[Work around lack of walrus operator in Python 3.7 and older]
2023-05-10 10:00:40 +02:00
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acpi-bits.rst Add my old and new work email mapping and use work email to support biosbits 2023-04-21 03:08:21 -04:00
atomics.rst docs: explain effect of smp_read_barrier_depends() on modern architectures 2023-04-20 11:17:36 +02:00
bitops.rst
blkdebug.txt docs/: fix some comment spelling errors 2020-09-17 20:37:13 +02:00
blkverify.txt meson: link emulators without Makefile.target 2020-08-21 06:30:40 -04:00
block-coroutine-wrapper.rst block-coroutine-wrapper.py: introduce co_wrapper 2022-12-15 16:07:43 +01:00
build-system.rst configure: improve error for ucontext coroutine backend 2022-09-01 07:42:37 +02:00
ci-definitions.rst.inc tests/acceptance: rename tests acceptance to tests avocado 2021-11-08 17:00:22 +01:00
ci-jobs.rst.inc docs/devel: clean-up the CI links in the docs 2022-06-01 18:55:04 +01:00
ci-runners.rst.inc docs: name included files ".rst.inc" 2021-10-01 19:04:45 +02:00
ci.rst docs/devel: clean-up the CI links in the docs 2022-06-01 18:55:04 +01:00
clocks.rst clock: Provide builtin multiplier/divider 2021-09-01 11:08:19 +01:00
code-of-conduct.rst docs/devel: add a maintainers section to development process 2022-11-22 09:49:07 +00:00
conflict-resolution.rst docs: Add a QEMU Code of Conduct and Conflict Resolution Policy document 2021-04-01 13:21:02 +02:00
control-flow-integrity.rst Fix typo in CFI build documentation 2021-05-02 17:24:50 +02:00
decodetree.rst decodetree: Extend argument set syntax to allow types 2021-05-01 11:45:35 -07:00
ebpf_rss.rst docs/devel/ebpf_rss.rst: Format literals correctly 2021-08-02 11:42:38 +01:00
fuzzing.rst docs/fuzz: remove mentions of fork-based fuzzing 2023-02-16 23:02:46 -05:00
index-api.rst docs/devel: drop :hidden: and :includehidden: tags 2022-04-20 16:04:20 +01:00
index-build.rst acpi/tests/avocado/bits/doc: add a doc file to describe the acpi bits test 2022-11-02 06:56:32 -04:00
index-internals.rst docs/devel: start documenting writing VirtIO devices 2022-05-16 04:38:40 -04:00
index-process.rst docs/devel: add a maintainers section to development process 2022-11-22 09:49:07 +00:00
index-tcg.rst tcg: convert tcg/README to rst 2023-01-04 16:20:01 -08:00
index.rst docs/devel: drop :hidden: and :includehidden: tags 2022-04-20 16:04:20 +01:00
kconfig.rst docs/devel/kconfig.rst: Fix incorrect markup 2023-04-20 10:21:16 +01:00
loads-stores.rst Replace TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN 2022-04-06 10:50:37 +02:00
lockcnt.txt docs: fix references to docs/devel/atomics.rst 2021-06-02 06:51:09 +02:00
maintainers.rst docs/devel: add a maintainers section to development process 2022-11-22 09:49:07 +00:00
memory.rst docs/devel: add some clarifying text for aliases 2022-01-18 12:56:29 +01:00
migration.rst migration: Split save_live_pending() into state_pending_* 2023-02-06 19:22:56 +01:00
modules.rst docs: Spell QEMU all caps 2021-11-19 10:16:58 +01:00
multi-process.rst docs: Render binary names as monospaced text 2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
multi-thread-tcg.rst docs: Spell QEMU all caps 2021-11-19 10:16:58 +01:00
multiple-iothreads.txt async: Add an optional reentrancy guard to the BH API 2023-04-28 11:31:07 +02:00
qapi-code-gen.rst qapi: Relax doc string @name: description indentation rules 2023-05-10 10:00:40 +02:00
qgraph.rst Fix some typos in documentation (found by codespell) 2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
qom.rst docs/devel: mention the spacing requirement for QOM 2023-04-27 14:58:51 +01:00
qtest.rst tests: move libqtest.h back under qtest/ 2022-05-03 15:16:51 +04:00
rcu.txt Docs/RCU: Correct sample code of qatomic_rcu_set 2021-01-12 12:38:03 +01:00
replay.rst docs: move replay docs to docs/system/replay.rst 2022-06-06 09:26:54 +02:00
reset.rst hw/core/resettable: fix reset level counting 2022-10-27 10:27:23 +01:00
s390-dasd-ipl.rst docs: rstfy s390 dasd ipl documentation 2020-02-26 18:57:07 +01:00
secure-coding-practices.rst docs/secure-coding-practices: Describe how to use 'null-co' block driver 2021-06-02 14:29:14 +02:00
stable-process.rst docs: Fix botched rST conversion of 'submitting-a-patch.rst' 2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
style.rst docs/style: call out the use of GUARD macros 2023-04-27 14:58:51 +01:00
submitting-a-patch.rst docs/devel: try and improve the language around patch review 2022-11-22 09:52:23 +00:00
submitting-a-pull-request.rst docs/devel: add a maintainers section to development process 2022-11-22 09:49:07 +00:00
tcg-icount.rst tcg: Drop gen_io_end() 2021-09-08 11:09:45 +01:00
tcg-ops.rst docs/devel/tcg-ops: Drop recommendation to free temps 2023-03-05 13:44:08 -08:00
tcg-plugins.rst docs: add a new section to outline emulation support 2023-02-02 10:44:23 +00:00
tcg.rst tcg: add perfmap and jitdump 2023-01-16 10:14:12 -10:00
testing.rst testing: update ubuntu2004 to ubuntu2204 2023-03-01 10:31:46 +00:00
tracing.rst docs: trace-events-all is installed without renaming 2022-04-21 17:03:51 +04:00
trivial-patches.rst docs: Fix botched rST conversion of 'submitting-a-patch.rst' 2021-11-22 15:02:38 +01:00
ui.rst docs: Spell QEMU all caps 2021-11-19 10:16:58 +01:00
vfio-migration.rst docs/devel: Document VFIO device dirty page tracking 2023-03-07 10:21:22 -07:00
virtio-backends.rst docs/devel: start documenting writing VirtIO devices 2022-05-16 04:38:40 -04:00
virtio-migration.txt
writing-monitor-commands.rst qapi: Start to elide redundant has_FOO in generated C 2022-12-13 18:31:37 +01:00