[dpdk-dev] [RFC] cmdline: rework as a wrapper to libedit

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Thu Nov 16 18:06:39 CET 2017


On 11/16/2017 1:23 AM, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
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>> I do not agree it has severed DPDK well, just look at test-pmd and the hoops people have to jump thru to get a new command or variation of an existing command integrated into test-pmd it is very difficult. Also if you look at the command sets in test-pmd they are very odd in that similar commands can some times be set up completely different as cmdline is too rigid and difficult to use.
> 
> Testpmd is indeed messy, but this is not librte_cmdline's fundamental fault
> in my opinion, more likely the result of using a copy/paste approach to new
> commands due to lack of time or interest in making things nicer than the
> bare minimum to validate features. There's no design direction for it hence
> the lack of uniformity in the command hierarchy.

Unrelated to cmdline discussion +1 for this paragraph.


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