[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 8/8] doc: drop EAL command-line reference from FreeBSD GSG

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Nov 27 14:46:40 CET 2019


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:31:10PM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 25-Nov-19 2:55 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > The EAL command-line reference section duplicated material covered in a
> > previous chapter, was out of date, and generally is unnecessary as options
> > are best queried directly by passing "--help" to a DPDK binary. Therefore
> > we can drop this section to avoid having to try and keep it up-to-date in
> > the future.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > ---
> 
> While passing --help works, i believe the parameter guides are a little bit
> more detailed than what you can put in a help message, so there still is a
> place for those. FreeBSD doesn't have FreeBSD-specific parameters, so in
> this case it's probably OK to drop this particular document, but it would
> still be nice to refer users to the common EAL arguments guide.
> 
Ok. Let's drop this patch from the set for 19.11, then.

/Bruce


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