On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-06-30 19:03, John McNamara: > > This patch converts the NIC feature table in the overview doc into a set of > > ini files and adds some functions into the Sphinx conf.py file to convert > > them > > back into an RST table. > > > > The reason for doing this is to make it easier for PMD maintainers to update > > the feature matrix that makes up the table and to avoid frequent and hard to > > resolve conflicts in doc/guides/nics/overview.rst. > > Great idea!
Yes, indeed! The old formats also make the review hard (due to the long/messy diff). I was also kidding/wishing before that it'd be great if we could have a column-based diff file. With your proposal, we don't need it any more :) --yliu