[PATCH 1/2] doc: remove reference to device selection option

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Thu Jul 17 14:14:32 CEST 2025


On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 01:46:03PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> --use-device was replaced with -a / --vdev options in v1.6
> with commit cac6d08c8bde ("devargs: replace --use-device option by
> --pci-whitelist and --vdev").
> 
> It was reintroduced in the doc in v1.8 when the rst documentation
> was imported in .rst format.
> 

Those are some really, really old release versions! This issue has been
around a very long time, it seems!

> Fixes: 1ab07743b21b ("doc: getting started guide for linux")
> Fixes: dacdbfa45752 ("doc: getting started guide for freebsd")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>


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