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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] devtools: allow misc options in null test
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:19:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993811.29u6B1lWsr@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8xfZHECvE4UeFrX2qZ01rC2VO5p6asEM7GX36+1KfcFLA@mail.gmail.com>

29/07/2019 12:36, David Marchand:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 5:53 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> >
> > In order to ease basic testing with customized options,
> > EAL and testpmd options can be added as third and fourth arguments
> > of the "null PMD" script.
> >
> > Also, the first argument becomes more flexible by accepting
> > the testpmd path as an alternative to the build directory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> 
> Not sure I would have split this from the first patch.

Patches have different intents, different explanations.

> Out of curiosity, what are the cases where you need to set options?

It allows to test different builds with a specific option,
and see which one is failing.
For instance, it was useful when debugging a failure with -w option recently.



  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-29 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-17 11:20 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: fix null test Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-17 15:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] devtools: restore " Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-17 15:52   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] devtools: allow misc options in " Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-29 10:36     ` David Marchand
2019-07-29 12:19       ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2019-07-29 12:55         ` David Marchand
2019-07-29 10:35   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] devtools: restore " David Marchand
2019-07-29 12:15     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-29 12:53       ` David Marchand
2019-07-30 17:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 " Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-30 17:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] devtools: allow misc options in " Thomas Monjalon
2019-08-05 15:23     ` Thomas Monjalon

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