[PATCH 1/2] dts: add packet capture test suite

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Apr 11 00:46:48 CEST 2025


On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:57:59 +0100
Thomas Wilks <thomas.wilks at arm.com> wrote:

> +    def _start_pdump(
> +        self,
> +        pdump_params: list[PdumpParameters],
> +        eal_params: EalParams | None = None,
> +    ) -> BlockingDPDKApp:
> +        if eal_params is None:
> +            eal_params = EalParams()
> +
> +        eal_params.append_str(" ".join([f'--pdump "{param}"' for param in pdump_params]))
> +
> +        pdump = BlockingDPDKApp(PurePath("app/dpdk-pdump"), app_params=eal_params)

Please test dpdk-dumpcap not pdump. The old pdump is legacy, has too complex an options,
can't work in many cases and is a general mess. Dpdk-dumpcap was built as a replacement
and has way more features and will be supported.

I intend to deprecate pdump and remove it in 25.11.


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