Supporting more than 2 sub-device is a remnant from earlier fail-safe design, that was never actually published.
Fixes: a46f8d584eb8 ("net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gr...@u256.net> --- doc/guides/nics/fail_safe.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/fail_safe.rst b/doc/guides/nics/fail_safe.rst index 3ce2f8bee..b4a92f663 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/fail_safe.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/fail_safe.rst @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ The Fail-safe PMD can be used like most other DPDK virtual devices, by passing a ``--vdev`` parameter to the EAL when starting the application. The device name must start with the *net_failsafe* prefix, followed by numbers or letters. This name must be unique for each device. Each fail-safe instance must have at least one -sub-device, up to ``RTE_MAX_ETHPORTS-1``. +sub-device, and at most two. A sub-device can be any DPDK device, including possibly another fail-safe device. -- 2.25.0