Following Neil comments, here is a patchset to rework the eal options parsing. I tried to have everything common to linux and bsd in a single file.
I ran a little make test on linux, it looks fine (at least I have as many fails as before my changes). There is still work in this part, but I want to stop here. If anyone wants to continue ... :-) -- David Marchand David Marchand (7): eal: remove unused --use-device option eal: factorise unsupported option handling eal: remove duplicate handling of white/black list eal: fix checkpatch issues before moving code eal: merge bsd and linux common options parsing eal: rework long options parsing eal: indent files lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/Makefile | 1 + lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c | 388 +++-------------------- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 392 +++++++++++++++++++++++ lib/librte_eal/common/include/eal_options.h | 84 +++++ lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/Makefile | 1 + lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 457 +++++---------------------- 6 files changed, 593 insertions(+), 730 deletions(-) create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c create mode 100644 lib/librte_eal/common/include/eal_options.h -- 1.7.10.4