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authorCiara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com>2017-06-06 16:26:18 +0100
committerBen Pfaff <blp@ovn.org>2017-06-07 13:48:44 -0700
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docs: Update dpdk vdev naming instructions.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@ovn.org> Acked-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
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@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ Virtual DPDK devices which do not have PCI addresses can be added using a
different format for 'dpdk-devargs'.
Typically, the format expected is 'eth_<driver_name><x>' where 'x' is a
-number between 0 and RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS -1 (31).
+unique identifier of your choice for the given port.
For example to add a dpdk port that uses the 'null' DPDK PMD driver::