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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 03/11] net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:58:13 +0200
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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?