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 9688F423AA; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:40:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0D340691; 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 B188F4014F 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-pj1-f70.google.com (mail-pj1-f70.google.com [209.85.216.70]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id us-mta-672-K8LUEmh7PcyqkyRvYCAwyQ-1; Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:40:14 -0500 X-MC-Unique: K8LUEmh7PcyqkyRvYCAwyQ-1 Received: by mail-pj1-f70.google.com with SMTP id b16-20020a17090a551000b00225aa26f1dbso5968272pji.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=7x4x1CCMXzRismao4ERVWZzwGjcSYzdOs7w54Kvq4n5GCk2UFb0oXN4FVomyvHKOHd OSG5haDioKWG8Jxgq0gmhyoQyQaAw6vBci60tAoHgxoAC3Z4hLJXHdrt1nOteielJqzG 1N/6DPUJ37YHTL78h2IdF1ahrbK722WGiVuAdtOPtCJg2IMUq8naKiJc8Venl8+LUU1p m9ByOmu36kP7EuuI4TnH4CGcFJPcOjpHYAj39Qe6dGwkqvYYM5ypg3fdAZ4jhmEKrs4d UP0I61cwtbBi01ZzyfxQUK2ITY6aQOsStl1nkUo6L9eoiEur9RM/CEwU6IcIgsfazF0y MJXg== X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2kpmddFfyoGZcZrkn1h9fiOrPBQgjMsWUNvY9dx0786x5rDARvXS w7jwBYgVJ2YK+mby17DhTRZyZWwdASj5Z0TXZqswRyRfXA0PzXSwJWL9aOcOr29ywDA1uWSpFoK 2qWuQRHeaiuV+dLeUL5Y= X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:264d:b0:226:1564:643c with SMTP id pa13-20020a17090b264d00b002261564643cmr3921560pjb.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: dts@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: test suite reviews and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dts-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