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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/9] ethdev: add common devargs parser
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 21:53:38 +0200
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16/04/2018 15:06, Declan Doherty:
> From: Remy Horton <remy.horton@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.

Most of the parsing functions should be removed when the new devargs
framework will be ready.
So I won't look specifically at this code.

But I would like to review the devargs you are standardizing.
Unfortunately, I cannot find a documentation about it.
How users are supposed to use it?
Can you, at least, describe the syntax in the commit log, please?