From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3B6A04E0; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:31:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A07C58C3; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:31:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCED94C9D for <dev@dpdk.org>; Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:31:13 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 27 Nov 2019 04:31:12 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.69,249,1571727600"; d="scan'208";a="359486357" Received: from aburakov-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.92]) ([10.237.220.92]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 27 Nov 2019 04:31:11 -0800 To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, john.mcnamara@intel.com Cc: dev@dpdk.org References: <20191122160359.11625-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20191125145559.29251-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20191125145559.29251-9-bruce.richardson@intel.com> From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com> Message-ID: <dc4a8177-3fc9-0666-f6b8-48c894cba2fe@intel.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:31:10 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191125145559.29251-9-bruce.richardson@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 8/8] doc: drop EAL command-line reference from FreeBSD GSG X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> On 25-Nov-19 2:55 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > The EAL command-line reference section duplicated material covered in a > previous chapter, was out of date, and generally is unnecessary as options > are best queried directly by passing "--help" to a DPDK binary. Therefore > we can drop this section to avoid having to try and keep it up-to-date in > the future. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> > --- While passing --help works, i believe the parameter guides are a little bit more detailed than what you can put in a help message, so there still is a place for those. FreeBSD doesn't have FreeBSD-specific parameters, so in this case it's probably OK to drop this particular document, but it would still be nice to refer users to the common EAL arguments guide. -- Thanks, Anatoly