Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add missing long-options for short option arguments

["Wiles, Keith" <keith.wiles@intel.com>]

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

I think we need the long options to match the short options just because it makes sense to me to have long options for all short options. Take the case of -v, just about everyone else has a —version long-option, but we do not.

The real reason is to allow for DPDK configuration via a configuration file and I wanted to use the same strings for the config file variables as the command line options. I figured I would add the long options now as they do not effect the configuration file patch.
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>/Bruce
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Regards,
Keith