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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: avoid unnecessary conflicts over
	rte_config file
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:31:38 +0200
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2016-10-13 09:20, John Ousterhout:
> Hi Harry,
> 
> But, given the existence of the --file-prefix option, isn't it already
> unsafe for Collectd to check only for .rte_config? If it's important for
> other programs to be able to find the config files, it seems to me that a
> more robust mechanism is needed than the current one.

+1

And the default location of the file should respect the Linux standards,
e.g. .config/dpdk/...