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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 03:21:08PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 3:34 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > The DPDK commandline library is widely used by apps and examples within
> > DPDK, but it is not documented in our programmers guide and it requires
> > a lot of boilerplate code definitions in order to used. We can improve
> > this situation by creating a simple python script to automatically
> > generate the boilerplate from a list of commands.
> >
> > This patchset contains a new documentation chapter on cmdline library,
> > going through step-by-step how to add commands and create the necessary
> > token lists and parse contexts.
> >
> > Following that initial doc patch, the set then contains a
> > boilerplate-generating script, as well as a set of three patches showing
> > its use, by converting three examples to use the script instead of
> > having the hard-coded boilerplate. Once the script is used, adding a new
> > command becomes as simple as adding the desired command to the .list
> > file, and then writing the required function which will be called for
> > that command. No other boilerplate coding is necessary.
> >
> > Script obviously does not cover the full range of capabilities of the
> > commandline lib, but does cover the most used parts. The code-saving to
> > each of the examples by auto-generating the boilerplate is significant,
> > and probably more examples with commandlines can be converted over in
> > future.
> >
> > The "cmdline" example itself, is not converted over, as it should
> > probably remain as a simple example of direct library use without the
> > script.
> >
> > V3:
> > * Added lots of documentation
> > * Added support for help text for each command
> > * Cleaned up script a little so it passes pycodestyle and most flake8
> >   checks, when line-length is set to max 100.
> > * Removed RFC tag, as I consider this patchset stable enough for
> >   consideration in a release.
> >
> > V2-RFC:
> > * Add support for IP addresses in commands
> > * Move to buildtools directory and make installable
> > * Convert 3 examples to use script, and eliminate their boilerplate
> >
> > Bruce Richardson (5):
> >   doc/prog_guide: new chapter on cmdline library
> >   buildtools: script to generate cmdline boilerplate
> >   examples/simple_mp: auto-generate cmdline boilerplate
> >   examples/hotplug_mp: auto-generate cmdline boilerplate
> >   examples/bond: auto-generate cmdline boilerplate
> >
> >  app/test/commands.c                           |   2 +
> >  buildtools/dpdk-cmdline-gen.py                | 167 +++++++
> >  buildtools/meson.build                        |   7 +
> >  doc/guides/prog_guide/cmdline.rst             | 466 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst               |   1 +
> >  examples/bond/Makefile                        |  12 +-
> >  examples/bond/commands.list                   |   6 +
> >  examples/bond/main.c                          | 161 +-----
> >  examples/bond/main.h                          |  10 -
> >  examples/bond/meson.build                     |   8 +
> >  examples/multi_process/hotplug_mp/Makefile    |  12 +-
> >  examples/multi_process/hotplug_mp/commands.c  | 147 +-----
> >  examples/multi_process/hotplug_mp/commands.h  |  10 -
> >  .../multi_process/hotplug_mp/commands.list    |   5 +
> >  examples/multi_process/hotplug_mp/meson.build |   9 +
> >  examples/multi_process/simple_mp/Makefile     |  12 +-
> >  examples/multi_process/simple_mp/meson.build  |   9 +
> >  .../multi_process/simple_mp/mp_commands.c     | 106 +---
> >  .../multi_process/simple_mp/mp_commands.h     |  14 -
> >  .../multi_process/simple_mp/mp_commands.list  |   3 +
> >  20 files changed, 745 insertions(+), 422 deletions(-)
> 
> Interesting series.
> So if we remove the doc addition, this patch is removing loc, so +1 from me :-).
> 
> There is a problem though with externally building the examples.
> Maybe the dpdk-cmdline-gen.py has not been exported in the install process.
> 
It has, but it's not visible to the external builds in github actions. The
following one-line fix should correct that, I believe.
I was testing it in my own github yesterday, but never sent a v4 series.

/Bruce

diff --git a/.ci/linux-build.sh b/.ci/linux-build.sh
index e0b62bac90..3db9d9de6e 100755
--- a/.ci/linux-build.sh
+++ b/.ci/linux-build.sh
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ fi
 if [ "$BUILD_EXAMPLES" = "true" ]; then
     [ -d install ] || DESTDIR=$(pwd)/install meson install -C build
     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(dirname $(find $(pwd)/install -name librte_eal.so)):$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+    export PATH=$(dirname $(find $(pwd)/install -name dpdk-devbind.py)):$PATH
     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$(dirname $(find $(pwd)/install -name libdpdk.pc)):$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
     export PKGCONF="pkg-config --define-prefix"
     find build/examples -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "dpdk-*" |