TODO - remove dependency on ifconfig
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 of calls to ifconfig in DTS.
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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?
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of calls to ifconfig in DTS.
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David Marchand
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Quoted 2 lines · Stephen Hemminger
It would be good if DTS and DPDK docs and test did not use the ifconfig
command.
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Ifconfig is not maintained and is deprecated. Some distros have stopped
shipping it.
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Ifconfig only used ioctl's and was never updated to handle the many kinds of interfaces and devices in Linux.
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The documentation part is relatively straight forward, but there are lots
Can you send patches for the doc?
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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