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-rw-r--r--docs/qapi-code-gen.txt5
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diff --git a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
index 0728f36c65..d78921f875 100644
--- a/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
+++ b/docs/qapi-code-gen.txt
@@ -123,11 +123,12 @@ And it looks like this on the wire:
Flat union types avoid the nesting on the wire. They are used whenever a
specific field of the base type is declared as the discriminator ('type' is
-then no longer generated). The discriminator must always be a string field.
+then no longer generated). The discriminator must be of enumeration type.
The above example can then be modified as follows:
+ { 'enum': 'BlockdevDriver', 'data': [ 'raw', 'qcow2' ] }
{ 'type': 'BlockdevCommonOptions',
- 'data': { 'driver': 'str', 'readonly': 'bool' } }
+ 'data': { 'driver': 'BlockdevDriver', 'readonly': 'bool' } }
{ 'union': 'BlockdevOptions',
'base': 'BlockdevCommonOptions',
'discriminator': 'driver',