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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/9] ethdev: add common devargs parser
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:40:18 +0100
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On 24/04/2018 20:53, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
[..]
> 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?

The patch follows this pseudo-BNF:

cfg   := pair (',' pair)*
pair  := (key '=' value)
key   := 'port' | 'representor'
value := range | list
range := int ('-' int)?
int   := [0-9]+
list  := '[' range (',' range)* ']'