[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] add FILE arguement to debug functions

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 4 May 2014 08:20:54 -0400
Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:42:56PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > The DPDK dump functions are useful for remote debugging of an
> > applications. But when application runs as a daemon, stdout
> > is typically routed to /dev/null.
> > 
> > Instead change all these functions to take a stdio FILE * handle
> > instead. An application can then use open_memstream() to capture
> > the output.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > 
> Why not convert these to rte_log calls?  Seems like we already have the
> infrastrucutre here, we just need to use it.
> Neil
> 

Because it is useful to have remote console like functionatlity,
and dumping this to log doesn't work for that.