Section "Commands" qualifies its rules on permitted argument and
return types "with one exception noted below when 'gen' is used". The
note went away in commit 2d21291. Clean up the dangling references.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1489582656-31133-5-git-send-email-arm...@redhat.com>
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docs/qapi-code-gen.txt | 18 ++++++++----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index 4b64ee7..5532b60 100644
--- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -558,22 +558,20 @@ The 'data' argument maps to the "arguments" dictionary
passed in as
part of a Client JSON Protocol command. The 'data' member is optional
and defaults to {} (an empty dictionary). If present, it must be the
string name of a complex type, or a dictionary that declares an
-anonymous type with the same semantics as a 'struct' expression, with
-one exception noted below when 'gen' is used.
+anonymous type with the same semantics as a 'struct' expression.
The 'returns' member describes what will appear in the "return" member
of a Client JSON Protocol reply on successful completion of a command.
The member is optional from the command declaration; if absent, the
"return" member will be an empty dictionary. If 'returns' is present,
it must be the string name of a complex or built-in type, a
-one-element array containing the name of a complex or built-in type,
-with one exception noted below when 'gen' is used. Although it is
-permitted to have the 'returns' member name a built-in type or an
-array of built-in types, any command that does this cannot be extended
-to return additional information in the future; thus, new commands
-should strongly consider returning a dictionary-based type or an array
-of dictionaries, even if the dictionary only contains one member at the
-present.
+one-element array containing the name of a complex or built-in type.
+Although it is permitted to have the 'returns' member name a built-in
+type or an array of built-in types, any command that does this cannot
+be extended to return additional information in the future; thus, new
+commands should strongly consider returning a dictionary-based type or
+an array of dictionaries, even if the dictionary only contains one
+member at the present.
All commands in Client JSON Protocol use a dictionary to report
failure, with no way to specify that in QAPI. Where the error return
--
2.7.4
