[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 6/9] ethdev: add common devargs parser

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 4/26/2018 11:41 AM, Declan Doherty wrote:
> From: Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com>
> 
> Introduces a new structure, rte_eth_devargs, to support generic
> ethdev arguments common across NET PMDs, with a new API
> rte_eth_devargs_parse API to support PMD parsing these arguments. The
> patch add support for a representor argument  passed with passed with
> the EAL -w option. The representor parameter allows the user to specify
> which representor ports to initialise on a device.
> 
> The argument supports passing a single representor port, a list of
> port values or a range of port values.
> 
> -w BDF,representor=1  # create representor port 1 on pci device BDF
> -w BDF,representor=[1,2,5,6,10] # create representor ports in list
> -w BDF,representor=[0-31] # create representor ports in range
> 
> Signed-off-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty at intel.com>

<...>

> +/**
> + * @warning
> + * @b EXPERIMENTAL: this API may change without prior notice.
> + *
> + * PMD helper function to parse ethdev arguments
> + *
> + * @param devargs
> + *  device arguments
> + * @param eth_devargs
> + *  parsed ethdev specific arguments.
> + *
> + * @return
> + *   Negative errno value on error, 0 on success.
> + */
> +int __rte_experimental
> +rte_eth_devargs_parse(const char *dargs, struct rte_eth_devargs *eth_devargs);

API doc build giving warning because of doxygen comments, devargs vs dargs, I
will fix while applying as "devargs"