[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: autogenerate nic overview table from ini files

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 7/17/2016 1:59 PM, John McNamara wrote:
> Convert the NIC feature table in the overview doc into a set of ini
> files and add functions into the Sphinx conf.py file to auto-generate
> them back into an RST table.
> 
> The reason for doing this is to make it easier for PMD maintainers to
> update the feature matrix that makes up the table and to avoid
> frequent and hard to resolve conflicts in doc/guides/nics/overview.rst.
> 
> A NIC/PMD feature matrix is now an ini file like the following:
> 
>     $ head doc/guides/nics/nic_features/i40e.ini
>     ;
>     ; Features of the i40e network driver.
>     ;
>     [Features]
>     Link status          = Y
>     Link status event    = Y
>     Rx interrupt         = Y
>     Queue start/stop     = Y
>     ...
> 
> The output RST table matches the existing table with the column
> headers sorted.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>

Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>