[ovs-dev] [PATCH] docs: Update dpdk vdev naming instructions

Stephen Finucane stephen at that.guru
Wed Jun 7 14:37:12 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 15:33 +0100, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 16:26 +0100, Ciara Loftus wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
> 
> I couldn't find where this changed (the only related commit was 69876ed, but that references the
> previous naming format) but I trust you know what you're talking about. From the docs side:
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>

...though you should probably fix 'dpdk-devargs' in 'vswitchd/vswitch.xml', per the above commit.

Stephen

> 
> > ---
> >  Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
> > index f3c7aff..93248b4 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/howto/dpdk.rst
> > @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Virtual DPDK devices which do not have PCI addresses can be added using a
> >  different format for 'dpdk-devargs'.
> >  
> >  Typically, the format expected is 'eth_<driver_name><x>' where 'x' is a
> > -number between 0 and RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS -1 (31).
> > +unique identifier of your choice for the given port.
> >  
> >  For example to add a dpdk port that uses the 'null' DPDK PMD driver::
> >  
> 
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