[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: allow virtual devices to be white/black listed

[Bruce Richardson]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 04:40:19PM +0000, Nicolas Pernas Maradei wrote:
> 
> On 17/11/14 16:00, Neil Horman wrote:
> >I get that, I was more asking, why those values?  They seem a bit magic to me,
> >and might benefit from some descriptive macros or comments so they make more
> >sense
> >Neil
> OK, I get you now.
> 
> Maybe the diff is not very clear. I just left the original calls to
> rte_eal_devargs_add() with the original values which they looked clear to me
> but I don't mind improving the comments a bit and as you suggested, adding
> in some macros.
> 
> I'll wait for some more feedback before submitting a second version of the
> patch.
>

Those are just example values for testing the parsing functionality. I'm don't
think descriptive macros are particularly needed, though maybe a short comment
or two might help out. The specific numeric values themselves aren't really important,
they are just examples of different patterns.

/Bruce