commit 90b224d843ba99161ba5e1a5aa7496bc3346ea03
author Chip Boling <chip.boling@adtran.com> Fri Jun 02 11:51:48 2017 -0500
committer khenaidoo Nursimulu <knursimu@ciena.com> Tue Jun 13 07:41:41 2017 -0700
tree b31387eb1eb9f805d6474eea59ba67ec5e2c4b55
parent 407392144c327a41ce65d251c8bcf6be2d8156aa

https://jira.opencord.org/browse/VOL-137

Change-Id: I3c62f05e10a036e402efc92a8710606df0b505de

cli/main.py

diff --git a/cli/main.py b/cli/main.py
index b3d012d..3f3157e 100755
--- a/cli/main.py
+++ b/cli/main.py
@@ -273,6 +273,9 @@
             kw['mac_address'] = opts.mac_address
         else:
             raise Exception('Either IP address or Mac Address is needed')
+        # Pass any extra arguments past '--' to the device as custom arguments
+        kw['extra_args'] = line
+
         device = voltha_pb2.Device(**kw)
         device = stub.CreateDevice(device)
         self.poutput('success (device id = {})'.format(device.id))

voltha/protos/device.proto

diff --git a/voltha/protos/device.proto b/voltha/protos/device.proto
index 39ec13e..a4174f5 100644
--- a/voltha/protos/device.proto
+++ b/voltha/protos/device.proto
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@
         string host_and_port = 21;
 
     };
+    string extra_args = 23;  // Used to pass additional device specific arguments
 
     ProxyAddress proxy_address = 19;