TODO - remove dependency on ifconfig

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

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> 
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 PM Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> >
> > It would be good if DTS and DPDK docs and test did not use the ifconfig
> command.
> > Ifconfig is not maintained and is deprecated. Some distros have stopped
> shipping it.
> > Ifconfig only used ioctl's and was never updated to handle the many
> > kinds of interfaces and devices in Linux.
> >
> > The documentation part is relatively straight forward, but there are
> > lots
> 
> Can you send patches for the doc?
> 
> > of calls to ifconfig in DTS.
> 
> Cc: dts@ and people involved in dts cleaning up
We discussed this topic, the DTS patch that was merged in the last DPDK release does not need ifconfig. The future patches, for dpdk repo, will use 'ip' command.

The existing DTS tree will not be changed.

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> David Marchand