[PATCH v2 00/44] qapi: convert trivial intro sections

John Snow <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:47:21 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-edac,org.kernel.vger.linux-cxl,org.nongnu.qemu-devel,org.nongnu.qemu-trivial
Message-ID <[email protected]>
GitLab CI: https://gitlab.com/jsnow/qemu/-/pipelines/2699067787

Hi, this patchset converts trivial "introductory" sections in the QAPI
documentation to use the new, explicit intro section syntax.

This is being done primarily for the benefit of the forthcoming
"inliner", a feature for the rendered HTML QMP documentation that
seeks to "inline" QMP command argument documentation into the argument
list for each command.

There are two main motives here:

(1) We want the split between the "introduction" and "details"
    sections to be mechanically obvious, so that auto-generated or
    inlined documentation has a well-defined, obvious spot to go.

(2) We do not want to inline irrelevant, introductory text describing
    structures to be copied into command documentation.

This patchset tackles "trivial" conversions: cases where the
introduction is only a single paragraph and is immediately followed by
a tagged section, the end of the documentation block, or some other
pre-existing syntactical delineation.

Future patches that may require more scrutiny will handle the
remaining conversions - I think this is enough for today, don't you?

John Snow (44):
  qapi: convert intro sections for error.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for acpi-hest.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for ebpf.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for uefi.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for compat.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for vfio.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for trace.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for misc-arm.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for cryptodev.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for machine-common.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for accelerator.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for authz.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for yank.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for replay.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for machine-s390x.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for acpi.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for tpm.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for qdev.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for control.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for dump.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for common.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for sockets.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for transaction.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for stats.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for job.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for pci.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for introspect.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for rocker.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for misc-i386.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for block-export.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for audio.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for block.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for misc.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for crypto.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for cxl.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for run-state.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for char.json
  qapi: convert intro sections for virtio.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for net.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for qom.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for ui.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for migration.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for machine.json
  qapi: convert trivial intro sections for block-core.json

 qapi/accelerator.json    |  18 +-
 qapi/acpi-hest.json      |   4 +-
 qapi/acpi.json           |  15 +-
 qapi/audio.json          |  88 ++----
 qapi/authz.json          |  21 +-
 qapi/block-core.json     | 646 ++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 qapi/block-export.json   |  87 +++---
 qapi/block.json          |  58 ++--
 qapi/char.json           |  90 ++----
 qapi/common.json         |  36 +--
 qapi/compat.json         |   6 +-
 qapi/control.json        |  30 +-
 qapi/crypto.json         | 118 +++----
 qapi/cryptodev.json      |  18 +-
 qapi/cxl.json            | 128 ++++----
 qapi/dump.json           |  24 +-
 qapi/ebpf.json           |  14 +-
 qapi/error.json          |   3 +-
 qapi/introspect.json     |  45 +--
 qapi/job.json            |  18 +-
 qapi/machine-common.json |  19 +-
 qapi/machine-s390x.json  |  20 +-
 qapi/machine.json        | 261 ++++++----------
 qapi/migration.json      | 201 +++++-------
 qapi/misc-arm.json       |  15 +-
 qapi/misc-i386.json      |  52 ++--
 qapi/misc.json           |  74 ++---
 qapi/net.json            | 101 +++---
 qapi/pci.json            |  27 +-
 qapi/qdev.json           |  23 +-
 qapi/qom.json            | 138 +++------
 qapi/replay.json         |  45 ++-
 qapi/rocker.json         |  39 +--
 qapi/run-state.json      | 120 +++-----
 qapi/sockets.json        |  31 +-
 qapi/stats.json          |  34 +--
 qapi/tpm.json            |  29 +-
 qapi/trace.json          |  12 +-
 qapi/transaction.json    |  14 +-
 qapi/uefi.json           |   5 +-
 qapi/ui.json             | 215 +++++--------
 qapi/vfio.json           |  19 +-
 qapi/virtio.json         |  91 +++---
 qapi/yank.json           |  25 +-
 44 files changed, 1165 insertions(+), 1912 deletions(-)

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