From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCC5423AC; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:40:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2B141611; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:40:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FA540691 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:40:16 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1673422816; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=XzoerUbuX513HaUEXAPrxXtlM6VPubzr2th3W8j+gfI=; b=Th0+RtlGwb6nv3ylGLRvEvVG9OQNKeHXmehHBio8pzpFjH/iSCT1/0uWZhCjZR9oGCInFl HomVQyBqiNKfGSdKMUflk1YcUE4FX/whrjAqVUaJ+Qw/nRcI0LVEYfVijUMmO1VUx0e8fC djjn4+5ok2N9ANkU0SnX7qYlHAP3ZlE= Received: from mail-pg1-f197.google.com (mail-pg1-f197.google.com [209.85.215.197]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id us-mta-312-XgiZmKYBPfGrSelp1rJM4Q-1; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:40:14 -0500 X-MC-Unique: XgiZmKYBPfGrSelp1rJM4Q-1 Received: by mail-pg1-f197.google.com with SMTP id a33-20020a630b61000000b00429d91cc649so6257956pgl.8 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:40:14 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=XzoerUbuX513HaUEXAPrxXtlM6VPubzr2th3W8j+gfI=; b=h9uuK6PC5y9T1IgT7+OA7/PvVMNQGfhUKj5NOiEnJNGsPfEsdnNQVwyoPZFFM0CfXR JdqlDu+NX2X7ZSk4fV2eoRAZJSXc3g7UDB13iVAkGO/u4cGMIKEcjUHMYJ+P/I0TBTt0 ojzjTG7TBNY3bSUi7vb2M+DkdcS9HMTUIuoUGzlyvCkGIBIaFXBN1f120ekRW5zwA0V3 Y/pT6SVz61jVVS2qkuUzdAg37HxioS/rnVHYQyfJyPIuaAaH3se8ViZbNQUyB1tAFICb Kk61ZeiQblnMvPUrJJfgBpPMPgR2UytrSlgZqOh72nEbbWsuysOSa16m/WutfPPH+jNe HxZg== X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2kqBhAw4IKqcs2uLtLIHKDz70tXkDA3m7K1Zz2zAAzNNpS9JCWwf tBu8pfXdRU9IWcx41eID3r3y01g+2jNpsZaShgrAQUb/aeruTiwx4ibXlOmjkdYbb0J+1Lbz5IP j4MY7W4qBRSrGL8kxs6g= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:264d:b0:226:1564:643c with SMTP id pa13-20020a17090b264d00b002261564643cmr3921561pjb.206.1673422813169; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:40:13 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMrXdXuAAiCkc9UCUe0/m/EVLLGGkKvXAqpuFrrTyWwMTkvIvXntJjDbYIPWiAaVBv0Zm+MdQ+eLywKP6G8voKvN0OY= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:264d:b0:226:1564:643c with SMTP id pa13-20020a17090b264d00b002261564643cmr3921556pjb.206.1673422812839; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:40:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20230110121933.2e0989fa@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: <20230110121933.2e0989fa@hermes.local> From: David Marchand Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: TODO - remove dependency on ifconfig To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: dev@dpdk.org, dts@dpdk.org, Honnappa Nagarahalli , =?UTF-8?Q?Juraj_Linke=C5=A1?= X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 9:19 PM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > It would be good if DTS and DPDK docs and test did not use the ifconfig command. > Ifconfig is not maintained and is deprecated. Some distros have stopped shipping it. > Ifconfig only used ioctl's and was never updated to handle the many kinds of interfaces > and devices in Linux. > > The documentation part is relatively straight forward, but there are lots Can you send patches for the doc? > of calls to ifconfig in DTS. Cc: dts@ and people involved in dts cleaning up -- David Marchand