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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 09/25/2015 04:00 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> On 09/25/2015 03:35 PM, David Marchand wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any reason why we should only have this for linux ?
>>>
>>
>> I merely followed suite with the related, pre-existing -d option which
>> also only exists for Linux. And wondered about the same thing :)
>>
>
> So...
>
> Is this blocking on being Linux-only? I can have a look at moving the
> initialization to common/ if needed, but I wont be able test on FreeBSD.
> I'd just like to get this functionality into DPDK 2.2 to remove one of
> those silly usability obstacles thats all :)


Yes this would make it simpler.

Not blocking, but if you can move this to common code, then all better.
I am pretty sure someone can test this on FreeBSD, Bruce maybe ? :-)


-- 
David Marchand