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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, Aman Singh <aman.deep.singh@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] app/testpmd: sort commands by help string
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 14:29:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aCSayGXBlEC-KYa3@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <608636ba99de43497d42f41787fec7005cc2e52b.1747227723.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 02:02:12PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> When using '?' to find commands, it occasionally is difficult to find the
> needed commands because all commands are not in alphabetical order, but
> rather can be ordered rather arbitrarily.
> 
> To address this, use help string to order commands. This sacrifices some
> amount of grouping (i.e. when tm commands go one after another), but may
> improve discoverability (and most similar commands tend to have similar
> help strings and will be located closer together anyway).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
> ---
>  app/test-pmd/cmdline.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 82 insertions(+)
> 

+1 to sorting
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-14 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-14 13:02 [PATCH v1 1/2] app/testpmd: harmonize case in help strings Anatoly Burakov
2025-05-14 13:02 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] app/testpmd: sort commands by help string Anatoly Burakov
2025-05-14 13:29   ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2025-05-14 13:26 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] app/testpmd: harmonize case in help strings Bruce Richardson

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