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From: "Legacy, Allain" <Allain.Legacy@windriver.com>
To: "DUMITRESCU, CRISTIAN FLORIN" <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dumitrescu, Cristian [mailto:cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com]
>=20
> I am not totally against it, but IMO this option is a bit confusing. Agai=
n, what's
> wrong with user explicitly adding the GLOBAL section if needed?
There's nothing wrong with using a global section.   It is our preference t=
o use this method because we need to support a legacy file format that need=
s to be parsed by other non-DPDK applications.  Those applications expect t=
his format. =20