[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 06/12] cmdline: use new ethernet address parser

[Olivier Matz]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 03:12:41PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Now that there is a version of ether_aton in rte_ether, it can
> be used by the cmdline ethernet address parser.
> 
> Note: ether_aton_r can not be used in cmdline because
> the old code would accept either bytes XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> or words XXXX:XXXX:XXXX and we need to keep compatiablity.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>

Thanks!

BTW, I noticed that it also fixes a more serious bug: the previous
commandline parser was using a static buffer, making it thread-unsafe.
I didn't see any places that could have been impacted.