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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add missing long-options for short
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 01:09:16PM -0600, Keith Wiles wrote:
> A number of short options for EAL are missing long options
> and this patch adds those missing options.
> 
> The missing long options are for:
> -c add --coremask
> -d add --driver
> -l add --corelist
> -m add --memsize
> -n add --mem-channels
> -r add --mem-ranks
> -v add --version
> Add an alias for --lcores using --lcore-map
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>

Why do we need long options for all the short options?

/Bruce