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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 05:11:16PM +0000, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:12:33AM -0600, Roger Keith Wiles wrote:
> > > Burn, it is not like we are going to add a huge number of new options in the
> > future and run out of letters.
> > >
> > No, but what about the application authors that need to accomodate all of
> > the dpdk command line options as well?
> > Neil
> 
> Hi Neil
> 
> I don't think that's a problem as all those parameters are separated with a --. I.e. ./testpmd -c f -n 2 -- <testpmd parameters>. Is that not the case?
> 
I don't know, I've not tried, though I'm still not a fan of having a command
line that takes the form:

<application> -c 0xnnnn -- -c ...

That just looks confusing to me.
Neil

> Thanks,
> Anatoly
>