29/07/2019 12:36, David Marchand: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 5:53 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > > > In order to ease basic testing with customized options, > > EAL and testpmd options can be added as third and fourth arguments > > of the "null PMD" script. > > > > Also, the first argument becomes more flexible by accepting > > the testpmd path as an alternative to the build directory. > > > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > Not sure I would have split this from the first patch.
Patches have different intents, different explanations. > Out of curiosity, what are the cases where you need to set options? It allows to test different builds with a specific option, and see which one is failing. For instance, it was useful when debugging a failure with -w option recently.