[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v10 03/11] net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD

[Gaëtan Rivet]

On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:58:13PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi Gaetan,
> 
> 15/07/2017 19:57, Gaetan Rivet:
> > +#. Start testpmd. The slave device should be blacklisted from normal EAL
> > +   operations to avoid probing it twice when in PCI blacklist mode.
> > +
> > +   .. code-block:: console
> > +
> > +      $RTE_TARGET/build/app/testpmd -c 0xff -n 4 \
> > +         -w 'net_failsafe0,mac=de:ad:be:ef:01:02,dev(84:00.0),dev(net_ring0)'
> > +         -b 84:00.0 -b 00:04.0 -- -i
> 
> It is weird to use -w to declare the failsafe device.
> And I think it does not work with -w.
> Should it be changed to --vdev?

It did work before [1], and it was a way to showcase the new format, but
with [1] applied, then it should come back to --vdev indeed.

[1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-July/071361.html

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Gaëtan Rivet
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