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authorPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>2020-07-14 18:10:10 +0200
committerPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>2020-07-21 16:13:04 +0200
commitb6c61f69349ca3706c7e757ec1f2df916b70de7a (patch)
treee8112eab9b85d17bd648b90ff2b3406ab1964127 /include/qemu-common.h
parentd450cccc9a4f4409434f4bd0a80270836f6bc3c3 (diff)
qemu-common: Document qemu_find_file()
Document qemu_find_file(), in particular the returned value which must be freed. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Li Qiang <liq3ea@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Rolnik <mrolnik@gmail.com> Tested-by: Michael Rolnik <mrolnik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200714164257.23330-4-f4bug@amsat.org>
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diff --git a/include/qemu-common.h b/include/qemu-common.h
index d0142f29ac..bb9496bd80 100644
--- a/include/qemu-common.h
+++ b/include/qemu-common.h
@@ -110,6 +110,23 @@ const char *qemu_get_vm_name(void);
#define QEMU_FILE_TYPE_BIOS 0
#define QEMU_FILE_TYPE_KEYMAP 1
+/**
+ * qemu_find_file:
+ * @type: QEMU_FILE_TYPE_BIOS (for BIOS, VGA BIOS)
+ * or QEMU_FILE_TYPE_KEYMAP (for keymaps).
+ * @name: Relative or absolute file name
+ *
+ * If @name exists on disk as an absolute path, or a path relative
+ * to the current directory, then returns @name unchanged.
+ * Otherwise searches for @name file in the data directories, either
+ * configured at build time (DATADIR) or registered with the -L command
+ * line option.
+ *
+ * The caller must use g_free() to free the returned data when it is
+ * no longer required.
+ *
+ * Returns: a path that can access @name, or NULL if no matching file exists.
+ */
char *qemu_find_file(int type, const char *name);
/* OS specific functions */