Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] dts: add text parser for testpmd verbose output

[Nicholas Pratte <npratte@iol.unh.edu>]

> I like the sound of this idea a lot actually since it would remove the
> chance of the output just completely being thrown away. In my own test
> suite I managed to dance around this by strategically placing my
> testpmd commands, but this could save people some headache in the
> future. I feel like this wouldn't be something overly complicated to
> implement either, all we would have to do is extend the send_command
> method in the TestpmdShell class and check a boolean for if verbose is
> on, extract this output. If/how to clear this list would be something
> to think about, but I would say that, in general, the idea of making
> sure we don't lose information is something that I'm all for.

That's a good point that you could just modify the send_command
method. In my head I was thinking that we'd have to modify each
individual method! Totally forget that all those testpmd methods I was
thinking about stem from send_command().