[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Documentation: Fix DPDK doc

Cian Ferriter cian.ferriter at intel.com
Tue Feb 21 11:13:32 UTC 2017


OVS no longer expects DPDK devices to start with dpdk and end with a
portid. Update docs to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Cian Ferriter <cian.ferriter at intel.com>
---
 Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
index 52cb3fc..23609e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ Bridges should be created with a ``datapath_type=netdev``::
 
     $ ovs-vsctl add-br br0 -- set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev
 
-ovs-vsctl can also be used to add DPDK devices. OVS expects DPDK device names
-to start with ``dpdk`` and end with a portid. ovs-vswitchd should print the
+ovs-vsctl can also be used to add DPDK devices. ovs-vswitchd should print the
 number of dpdk devices found in the log file::
 
     $ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk-p0 -- set Interface dpdk-p0 type=dpdk \
-- 
1.7.0.7



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