[PATCH 00/33] Update net driver documentation

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/22/2023 12:48 AM, fengchengwen wrote:
> On 2023/3/22 7:59, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> Some PMDs has "Pre-Installation Configuration" section in their documentation,
>> although section is not clear I assume that is historical from times compile
>> time parameters and 'make' build system used, where common make target was
>> 'install', so section refers to compile time configuration.
>>
>> Right now device arguments ("Runtime configuration") is documented under this
>> section which is confusing, so updating section name
>> from "Pre-Installation Configuration" to "Configuration".
>>
>> While touching documents trying to keep following template in the documents,
>> with section names and order, to have consistent documents without being
>> too strict on applying the template:
>>
>> 	[Overview]
>> 	Supported Devices
>> 	Supported Features
>> 	Prerequisites
>> 	Configuration
>> 		Compilation Options
>> 		Environment variables
>> 		Runtime Configuration
>> 	Debugging
>> 	Limitations or Known issues
>> 	Testpmd driver specific commands
> 
> Suggest document the template, so that new PMD will refer to it.
> 

+1 to document it, but not sure where to put this information.

> I didn't find a guide about how to add a new PMD, the above templeate is good in it.
> And the guide could also includes which ops should mandatory implements, which ops
> is optional implements.
> 
>>
>> Note: Patch sent as each driver separately to help review, it can be squashed
>> while merging.
>>
>> Other further improvements not covered here can be visiting
>>  "Building DPDK" sections which has redundant and less useful information,
>>  and "Usage example" section which has testpmd log, most of the part is same for
>>  all drivers.
>>
>> .
> 
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