[PATCH] app/dumpcap: allow help/version without primary process

Ben Magistro koncept1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 04:25:45 CET 2022


Currently dumpcap tries to initialize dpdk before parsing command line
arguments, this makes it impossible to check version or help without
having the primary process running already.

Signed-off-by: Ben Magistro <koncept1 at gmail.com>
---
 app/dumpcap/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/dumpcap/main.c b/app/dumpcap/main.c
index c5fe440302..1cc7e80d5d 100644
--- a/app/dumpcap/main.c
+++ b/app/dumpcap/main.c
@@ -781,8 +781,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	progname = argv[0];
 
-	dpdk_init();
 	parse_opts(argc, argv);
+	dpdk_init();
 
 	if (filter_str)
 		compile_filter();
-- 
2.27.0



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