Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/5] examples/kni: monitor and update link status continually

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 10/19/2018 1:23 AM, Dan Gora wrote:
> Update KNI example to add the command line flag '-m' to enable
> a function to continuously monitor the Ethernet link status of
> the physical link and update the link status of the corresponding
> interfaces with rte_kni_update_link().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Gora <dg@adax.com>

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> +Running the kni Example Application
> +-----------------------------------
>  
> -Loading the KNI kernel module without any parameter is the typical way a DPDK application
> -gets packets into and out of the kernel net stack.
> -This way, only one kernel thread is created for all KNI devices for packet receiving in kernel side:
> +The ``kni`` example application requires a number of command line options:
>  
>  .. code-block:: console
>  
> -    #insmod rte_kni.ko
> +    kni [EAL options] -- -P -p PORTMASK --config="(port,lcore_rx,lcore_tx[,lcore_kthread,...])[,(port,lcore_rx,lcore_tx[,lcore_kthread,...])]"

+ [-m]:

kni [EAL options] -- -P -p PORTMASK
--config="(port,lcore_rx,lcore_tx[,lcore_kthread,...])[,(port,lcore_rx,lcore_tx[,lcore_kthread,...])]"
[-m]

Can be added while merging.

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> -
> -Callbacks for Kernel Requests
> -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> -
> -To execute specific PMD operations in user space requested by some Linux* commands,
> -callbacks must be implemented and filled in the struct rte_kni_ops structure.
> -Currently, setting a new MTU, change in MAC address, configuring promiscusous mode and
> -configuring the network interface(up/down) re supported.
> -Default implementation for following is available in rte_kni library.
> -Application may choose to not implement following callbacks:
> -
> -- ``config_mac_address``
> -- ``config_promiscusity``

I am for keeping this section, is there any specific reason to remove this?