[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] Revert "eal: fix parsing option --telemetry"

[David Marchand]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 9:55 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 25/07/2019 10:42, David Marchand:
> > > > > 24/07/2019 17:20, Sean Morrissey:
> > > On further investigation, the full fix involves
> > > a change in the EAL command line parameter handling,
> > > which is probably too risky for RC3.
>
> No way you change the command line parsing,
> except the rte_option which was created for telemetry.
> The history of this "simple" feature is already full
> of hesitations which made me hesitate to merge.
> Please, don't force me to dig in the code, otherwise
> I will be tempted to do a big "clean-up".
>
> > > This revert will allow telemetry to function again,
> > > but with the erroneous message still in place.
> > > We will aim to fix in the next release.
> >
> > Might be good to look and revisit the rte_option api.
>

The patch on eal did not make any sense.
I am for reverting it too.

About the real fix, I'd like to first see a description of the actual problem.
Thanks.


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David Marchand