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doc: fix number of failsafe sub-devices

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Supporting more than 2 sub-device is a remnant from earlier fail-safe
design, that was never actually published.

Fixes: a46f8d584e ("net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <grive@u256.net>
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Gaetan Rivet 2020-02-22 01:14:40 +01:00 committed by Ferruh Yigit
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@ -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.