[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add note on primary process dependency

Reshma Pattan reshma.pattan at intel.com
Thu Oct 13 17:09:02 CEST 2016


The note i.e. "The dpdk-pdump tool can only be used in
conjunction with a primary process which has the packet
capture framework initialized already" is added to
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst to facilitate
easy understanding on the usage of the tool.

Suggested-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
index ac0e7c9..4098e50 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) tool that runs as
 a DPDK secondary process and is capable of enabling packet capture on dpdk ports.
 
    .. Note::
+      * The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool can only be used in conjunction with a primary
+        application which has the packet capture framework initialized already.
 
       * The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool depends on libpcap based PMD which is disabled
         by default in the build configuration files,
-- 
2.7.4



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