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diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/add_plugin.rst b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/add_plugin.rst
index eb9113a2efc..16952e8f036 100644
--- a/docs/gettingstarted/developers/add_plugin.rst
+++ b/docs/gettingstarted/developers/add_plugin.rst
@@ -9,20 +9,20 @@ Overview
________
This section shows how a VPP developer can create a new plugin, and
-add it to VPP.
+add it to VPP. We assume that we are starting from the VPP <top-of-workspace>.
As an example, we will use the **make-plugin.sh** tool found in
-**.../extras/emacs**. make-plugin.sh is a simple wrapper for a comprehensive
+**./extras/emacs**. make-plugin.sh is a simple wrapper for a comprehensive
plugin generator constructed from a set of emacs-lisp skeletons.
Create your new plugin
----------------------
-Change directory to **.../src/plugins**, and run the plugin generator:
+Change directory to **./src/plugins**, and run the plugin generator:
.. code-block:: console
- $ cd .../src/plugins
+ $ cd ./src/plugins
$ ../../extras/emacs/make-plugin.sh
<snip>
Loading /scratch/vpp-docs/extras/emacs/tunnel-c-skel.el (source)...
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Here are the generated files. We'll go through them in a moment.
.. code-block:: console
- $ cd .../src/plugins/myplugin
+ $ cd ./myplugin
$ ls
CMakeLists.txt myplugin.c myplugin_periodic.c setup.pg
myplugin_all_api_h.h myplugin.h myplugin_test.c
@@ -191,11 +191,16 @@ instance of this data structure.
You can enable or disable specific vpp plugins from the command
line. By default, plugins are loaded. To change that behavior, set
-default_disabled in the vlib_plugin_macro:
+default_disabled in the macro VLIB_PLUGIN_REGISTER:
.. code-block:: console
- .default_disabled = 1
+ VLIB_PLUGIN_REGISTER () =
+ {
+ .version = VPP_BUILD_VER,
+ .default_disabled = 1
+ .description = "myplugin plugin description goes here",
+ };
The boilerplate generator places the graph node dispatch function
onto the "device-input" feature arc. This may or may not be useful.
@@ -273,3 +278,7 @@ vlib_plugin_get_symbol(...) API:
void *p = vlib_get_plugin_symbol ("plugin_name", "symbol");
+More Examples
+-------------
+
+For more information you can read many example plugins in the directory "./src/plugins".