[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: document all EAL parameters in one place

Rami Rosen roszenrami at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 06:15:01 CET 2018


On 11/16/2018 4:52 PM, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Currently, the most complete (but still incomplete) user guide for
> EAL command-line parameters resides in user guide for testpmd.
> This is wrong on multiple levels, and should not be the case.
>
> To fix it, we have to create a document that lists all supported
> EAL command-line arguments. However, because different platforms
> support different subsets of available EAL parameters, instead of
> creating a single file, we will create a common file in
> doc/guides/common containing documentation for EAL parameters
> that are supported on all of our supported platforms (Linux and
> FreeBSD at the time of this writing).
>
> We will then include this document in the Getting Started guides
> for all supported platforms, so that any changes made to
> documentation for commonly supported EAL parameters will be
> reflected in Getting Started guides for all platforms.
>
> This patch also removes EAL parameters documentation from the
> testpmd user guide, and instead adds references to the newly
> created documents in both testpmd user guides and in sample
> applications guide.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>

This is a right and needed thing to do, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Rami Rosen <roszenrami at gmail.com>


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