On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:04:22AM -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 09:43:34PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 04:47:02PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 07:20:41PM -0300, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:46:52PM -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
> >> > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >> > > > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 12:40:34PM -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> >> > > > >> Add usage info for ovs-vswitchd dpdk option. Update
> >> > > > >> INSTALL.DPDK file.
> >> > > > >>
> >> > > > >> Reported-by: Hari Sasank Bhamidipalli <hbham...@cisco.com>
> >> > > > >> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@nicira.com>
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > I see that this references INSTALL.DPDK from the --help message.
> >> > > > > It
> >> > > > > looks like there's only a few sentences in INSTALL.DPDK on the
> >> > > > > --dpdk
> >> > > > > option. To me, that makes it seem like it would be easy enough to
> >> > > > > add
> >> > > > > those sentences to ovs-vswitchd(8), and then people would easily
> >> > > > > find
> >> > > > > the documentation in the expected place.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I thought abut that.
> >> > > > But just having --dpdk option does not work. User will have to refer
> >> > > > INSTALL.DPDK doc for other setup steps. So rather than reading two
> >> > > > docs, user can have all information about dpdk setup in INSTALL.DPDK.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > I can add a pointer to INSTALL.DPDK in man page, what do you think?
> >> > >
> >> > > I don't think INSTALL.DPDK is packaged in any distro, so pointing to
> >> > > that file doesn't help much if you got ovs from .deb or .rpm packages.
> >> > >
> >> > > Perhaps dpdk setup deserves a man-page itself and the --dpdk help
> >> > > could point to that man-page.
> >> >
> >> > That's probably for the best.
> >> >
> >> > As an alternative, it would be easy to install INSTALL.DPDK, e.g. for
> >> > Debian I think all you need is:
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
> >> > b/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
> >> > index d6360a1..3bd2ca3 100644
> >> > --- a/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
> >> > +++ b/debian/openvswitch-common.docs
> >> > @@ -1 +1,2 @@
> >> > FAQ
> >> > +INSTALL.DPDK
> >>
> >> Here is what you need for the rpm spec files to put together
> >> with your patch. I am adding more files because they are useful
> >> too. Feel free to remove them if you don't agree.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
> >> b/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
> >> index 30fe439..9f66f41 100644
> >> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
> >> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-fedora.spec.in
> >> @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ systemctl start openvswitch.service
> >> %doc /usr/share/man/man8/ovs-test.8.gz
> >> %doc /usr/share/man/man8/ovs-l3ping.8.gz
> >> %doc /usr/share/man/man8/vtep-ctl.8.gz
> >> +%doc COPYING DESIGN INSTALL.SSL NOTICE README WHY-OVS FAQ NEWS
> >> INSTALL.DPDK
> >> /var/lib/openvswitch
> >> /var/log/openvswitch
> >> /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl
> >> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
> >> index c817cce..251cfe5 100644
> >> --- a/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
> >> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch.spec.in
> >> @@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ rhel_cp etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs 0755
> >> rhel_cp etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifdown-ovs 0755
> >> rhel_cp usr_share_openvswitch_scripts_sysconfig.template 0644
> >>
> >> -docdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-%{version}
> >> -install -d -m755 "$docdir"
> >> -install -m 0644 FAQ rhel/README.RHEL "$docdir"
> >> install python/compat/uuid.py $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/openvswitch/python
> >> install python/compat/argparse.py
> >> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/share/openvswitch/python
> >>
> >> @@ -175,7 +172,7 @@ exit 0
> >> /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/sysconfig.template
> >> /usr/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
> >> /usr/share/openvswitch/vtep.ovsschema
> >> -/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-%{version}/FAQ
> >> -/usr/share/doc/openvswitch-%{version}/README.RHEL
> >> +%doc COPYING DESIGN INSTALL.SSL NOTICE README WHY-OVS FAQ NEWS
> >> +%doc INSTALL.DPDK rhel/README.RHEL
> >> /var/lib/openvswitch
> >> /var/log/openvswitch
> >
> > Pravin, are you willing to fold these changes (to the Debian and RHEL
> > packaging) into your documentation update? If not, let me know, and I
> > will formally write them up myself.
>
> I am planning on sending two separate patches one for dpdk
> documentation and one for packaging related changes.
That's great, thanks!
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