[ovs-dev] [PATCH] docs: Fix 7 byte octets MAC addresses in dpdk.rst

Stokes, Ian ian.stokes at intel.com
Wed Apr 11 08:21:51 UTC 2018


> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 05:18:55PM +0200, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> > Currently the code relies on the standard 6 byte octets, but the
> > documentation uses a wrong 7-byte octects.
> > This commit fix the documention in order to use the correct 6 byte
> > octets syntax.
> >
> > Fixes: 5e7588186839 ("netdev-dpdk: fix port addition for ports sharing
> > same PCI id")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com>
> 
> I find the use of "byte octets" odd here, since a byte and an octet are
> the same thing.  I would tend to say more like "docs: Fix 7-octet MAC
> addresses".
> 
I agree with above.

> I assume Ian will put this in his next DPDK pull request.

Yes, I intended to have this as part of this week's pull request.

Thanks
Ian
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