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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
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2016-06-30 13:04, Sergio Gonzalez Monroy:
> On 30/06/2016 12:38, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Does it need to be commented in rte.app.mk?
> > The other libs are in whole-archive to support dlopen of drivers.
> > But the problem here is not because of a driver use.
> 
> There seem to be a bunch of libraries under --whole-archive scope that 
> are not
> PMDs, ie. cfgfile, cmdline...
> 
> What is the criteria?

The criteria is a bit vague. We must try to include only libs which can
be used by a driver.
cmdline should probably not be there.
Does it make sense to use cfgfile in a driver? maybe yes.