[PATCH] examples/ethtool: fix error message about ports limit

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Jan 28 11:43:44 CET 2026


On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 11:33:50AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> The error message about the number of ports was swapping
> the desired and maximum number of ports.
> 
> Fixes: bda68ab9d1e7 ("examples/ethtool: add user-space ethtool sample application")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

>  examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/main.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/main.c b/examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/main.c
> index d380f69cea..b6bbae70d2 100644
> --- a/examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/main.c
> +++ b/examples/ethtool/ethtool-app/main.c
> @@ -288,9 +288,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	if (cnt_ports == 0)
>  		rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "No available NIC ports!\n");
>  	if (cnt_ports > MAX_PORTS) {
> -		printf("Info: Using only %i of %i ports\n",
> -			cnt_ports, MAX_PORTS
> -			);
> +		printf("Info: Using only %i of %i ports\n", MAX_PORTS, cnt_ports);
>  		cnt_ports = MAX_PORTS;
>  	}
>  
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 


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