> -----Original Message----- > From: Legacy, Allain [mailto:allain.leg...@windriver.com] > Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 11:04 AM > To: Dumitrescu, Cristian <cristian.dumitre...@intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Jolliffe, Ian (Wind River) <ian.jolli...@windriver.com> > Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/5] cfgfile: add support for unamed global section > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dumitrescu, Cristian [mailto:cristian.dumitre...@intel.com] > > > > What is the motivation for the having key/value pair outside of any > section? > > What would be the drawback of having the user explicitly define a GLOBAL > > section to host these key/value pairs? > Global parameters that are outside of sections are part of the ini informal > "standard". Our app use this format. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Global_properties > >
I am not totally against it, but IMO this option is a bit confusing. Again, what's wrong with user explicitly adding the GLOBAL section if needed?
