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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Cc: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 6/9] ethdev: add common devargs parser
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25/04/2018 11:40, Remy Horton:
> 
> 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)* ']'

OK
Please can you add it as a comment in the parsing code?

We will need one or two examples in the commit message too.

Can you show a complete command line please?
How do you give ethdev properties without the new devargs syntax
(in progress by Gaetan)?