From patchwork Wed Jul 6 15:57:39 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Pattan, Reshma" X-Patchwork-Id: 14609 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E919B8DAC; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:57:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEAD8DA0 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:57:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Jul 2016 08:57:52 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.28,319,1464678000"; d="scan'208";a="730442260" Received: from irvmail001.ir.intel.com ([163.33.26.43]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Jul 2016 08:57:49 -0700 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (sivswdev02.ir.intel.com [10.237.217.46]) by irvmail001.ir.intel.com (8.14.3/8.13.6/MailSET/Hub) with ESMTP id u66Fvmu7002766; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:57:49 +0100 Received: from sivswdev02.ir.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with ESMTP id u66FvmMs003507; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:57:48 +0100 Received: (from reshmapa@localhost) by sivswdev02.ir.intel.com with id u66FvmAj003503; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:57:48 +0100 From: Reshma Pattan To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Reshma Pattan Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:57:39 +0100 Message-Id: <1467820660-3418-2-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.1 In-Reply-To: <1467820660-3418-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> References: <1467820660-3418-1-git-send-email-reshma.pattan@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] doc: add pcap dependency note to pdump tool guide X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Added a missing note about dependencies on libpcap and CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP flag that pdump tool has. Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan Acked-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst index 96c8709..32d4fbc 100644 --- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst +++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst @@ -33,14 +33,21 @@ dpdk_pdump Application ====================== -The ``dpdk_pdump`` application is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application that runs as a DPDK secondary process and +The ``dpdk_pdump`` tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) tool that runs as a DPDK secondary process and is capable of enabling packet capture on dpdk ports. + .. Note:: + + * The ``dpdk_pdump`` tool depends on libpcap based PMD which is disabled by default in the build configuration + files, owing to an external dependency on the libpcap development files which must be installed on the board. + Once the libpcap development files are installed, the libpcap based PMD can be enabled by setting + CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y and recompiling the DPDK. + Running the Application ----------------------- -The application has a ``--pdump`` command line option with various sub arguments: +The tool has a ``--pdump`` command line option with various sub arguments: .. code-block:: console