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authorLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2017-08-16 18:42:05 +0100
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2017-08-16 18:46:04 +0100
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New upstream version 17.08
Change-Id: I288b50990f52646089d6b1f3aaa6ba2f091a51d7 Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
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(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.. _pdump_tool:
dpdk-pdump Application
======================
@@ -38,6 +39,12 @@ a DPDK secondary process and is capable of enabling packet capture on dpdk ports
.. Note::
* The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool can only be used in conjunction with a primary
application which has the packet capture framework initialized already.
+ In dpdk, only the ``testpmd`` is modified to initialize packet capture
+ framework, other applications remain untouched. So, if the ``dpdk-pdump``
+ tool has to be used with any application other than the testpmd, user
+ needs to explicitly modify that application to call packet capture
+ framework initialization code. Refer ``app/test-pmd/testpmd.c``
+ code to see how this is done.
* The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool depends on libpcap based PMD which is disabled
by default in the build configuration files,