docs/devel: update tcg-plugins.rst with API versioning details

While we are at it fix up the quoted code sections with the inline ::
approach.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org>

diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
index b18fb6729e3619b486cf7c1a8438620f066d5b9b..718eef00f22a6fb51ebee8afaff106f15a00459f 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,23 @@ process. However the project reserves the right to change or break the
 API should it need to do so. The best way to avoid this is to submit
 your plugin upstream so they can be updated if/when the API changes.
 
+API versioning
+--------------
+
+All plugins need to declare a symbol which exports the plugin API
+version they were built against. This can be done simply by::
+
+  QEMU_PLUGIN_EXPORT int qemu_plugin_version = QEMU_PLUGIN_VERSION;
+
+The core code will refuse to load a plugin that doesn't export a
+`qemu_plugin_version` symbol or if plugin version is outside of QEMU's
+supported range of API versions.
+
+Additionally the `qemu_info_t` structure which is passed to the
+`qemu_plugin_install` method of a plugin will detail the minimum and
+current API versions supported by QEMU. The API version will be
+incremented if new APIs are added. The minimum API version will be
+incremented if existing APIs are changed or removed.
 
 Exposure of QEMU internals
 --------------------------
@@ -40,16 +57,14 @@ instructions and events are opaque to the plugins themselves.
 Usage
 =====
 
-The QEMU binary needs to be compiled for plugin support:
+The QEMU binary needs to be compiled for plugin support::
 
-::
-    configure --enable-plugins
+  configure --enable-plugins
 
 Once built a program can be run with multiple plugins loaded each with
-their own arguments:
+their own arguments::
 
-::
-    $QEMU $OTHER_QEMU_ARGS \
+  $QEMU $OTHER_QEMU_ARGS \
       -plugin tests/plugin/libhowvec.so,arg=inline,arg=hint \
       -plugin tests/plugin/libhotblocks.so