These 2 patches were part of this RFC, which will not be integrated: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-September/046974.html
It does not bring any functional change, it just reworks the way long options are parsed in l2fwd and l3fwd to avoid uneeded strcmp() calls and to ease the addition of a new long option in the future. I send them in case maintainers think it is better this way, but I have no real need. Olivier Matz (2): l3fwd: rework long options parsing l2fwd: rework long options parsing examples/l2fwd/main.c | 30 +++++++-- examples/l3fwd/main.c | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 2 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-) -- 2.8.1