[dpdk-dev,PULL,REQUEST] doc: programmers guide.

  These changes are a conversion of the Programmers Guide from an MSWord file to Sphinx rst files.

The following changes since commit 07db4a9750940bbf95299a89afd12d178556e064:

  examples/distributor: new sample app (2014-11-16 22:54:56 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://dpdk.org/next/dpdk-doc  master

Bernard Iremonger (1):
      doc: programmers guide

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> Bernard Iremonger (1):
>       doc: programmers guide

Applied

Thanks a lot Bernard.
We have the complete documentation of DPDK 1.7!
Now it's time to update it for DPDK 1.8.