From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E85530C for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:09:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga005.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.32]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2016 08:09:05 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.31,340,1473145200"; d="scan'208";a="19249496" Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.237.217.46]) by fmsmga005.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2016 08:09:04 -0700 From: Reshma Pattan To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Reshma Pattan Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:09:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1476371342-8946-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.0.7 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add note on primary process dependency X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:09:06 -0000 The note i.e. "The dpdk-pdump tool can only be used in conjunction with a primary process which has the packet capture framework initialized already" is added to doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst to facilitate easy understanding on the usage of the tool. Suggested-by: Jianfeng Tan Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan --- doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst index ac0e7c9..4098e50 100644 --- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) tool that runs as a DPDK secondary process and is capable of enabling packet capture on dpdk ports. .. Note:: + * The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool can only be used in conjunction with a primary + application which has the packet capture framework initialized already. * The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool depends on libpcap based PMD which is disabled by default in the build configuration files, -- 2.7.4