Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] librte_pmd_packet: add PMD for AF_PACKET-based virtual devices

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:30:34AM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> About the form of the patch, I have 2 comments:
> 
> 1) A doc explaining the design, the dependencies and how it can be used would 
> be a great help. Could you write it in rst format?

What is rst format?  Are there other examples in the repository?

> 2) checkpatch.pl returns these errors:
> 
> ERROR:SPACING: space required before the open parenthesis '('
> #468: FILE: lib/librte_pmd_packet/rte_eth_packet.c:250:
> +               if(sockfd != -1)
> 
> ERROR:SPACING: space required before the open parenthesis '('
> #471: FILE: lib/librte_pmd_packet/rte_eth_packet.c:253:
> +               if(sockfd != -1)
> 
> ERROR:SPACING: spaces required around that '=' (ctx:VxV)
> #712: FILE: lib/librte_pmd_packet/rte_eth_packet.c:494:
> +               ifr.ifr_name[ifnamelen]='\0';

OK.  FWIW, at least the first two are slightly changed from what was
copied from the PCAP driver.  The other probably was a cut-n-paste
error from another source.

I'll post a V2 shortly...

John
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