The note i.e. "The dpdk-pdump tool can only be used in
conjunction with a primary process which has the packet
capture framework initialized already" is added to
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst to facilitate
easy understanding on the usage of the tool.
Suggested-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan at intel.com>
---
doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
index ac0e7c9..4098e50 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pdump.rst
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ 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 can only be used in conjunction with a primary
+ application which has the packet capture framework initialized already.
* The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool depends on libpcap based PMD which is disabled
by default in the build configuration files,
--
2.7.4
