[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: autogenerate nic overview table from ini files
Ferruh Yigit
ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Tue Jul 19 15:08:04 CEST 2016
On 7/17/2016 1:59 PM, John McNamara wrote:
> Convert the NIC feature table in the overview doc into a set of ini
> files and add functions into the Sphinx conf.py file to auto-generate
> them back into an RST table.
>
> The reason for doing this is to make it easier for PMD maintainers to
> update the feature matrix that makes up the table and to avoid
> frequent and hard to resolve conflicts in doc/guides/nics/overview.rst.
>
> A NIC/PMD feature matrix is now an ini file like the following:
>
> $ head doc/guides/nics/nic_features/i40e.ini
> ;
> ; Features of the i40e network driver.
> ;
> [Features]
> Link status = Y
> Link status event = Y
> Rx interrupt = Y
> Queue start/stop = Y
> ...
>
> The output RST table matches the existing table with the column
> headers sorted.
>
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
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