From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680D828EE for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:16:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA9420D7B; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:16:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:16:47 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=abdoMxuohP7pSuQiMQjSFYJ+4d j3iwuCGyDtvFyKvTg=; b=Rg00M8KdWNUsqLWVjDvlqBgDPMSZVnshyFbMUJcnkz +iPMhcVyN+xsjjC30mO1AkhLv/N9zuK63s4auu0jQij5q4hPlxaSoFwo3rGmx9tv sdRmrjjFQrW7NoLGnm7oaw7s5O+visdAt3LmwB6dwLKopwAe2fL3w5P+/1sfDg5+ o= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=abdoMx uohP7pSuQiMQjSFYJ+4dj3iwuCGyDtvFyKvTg=; b=L3L9J62tQYw0LNdtmAsimE W6SEfvWsKMMoEFED2EtDuI3gaItv1B2L/htoz7Oxvbgdg2wRl4O8Qyla49brOThB EY5GwDSrD5xekxA2GvlaQx+QMfC35EZF440hAnNWXoMR1CIeXOjoRzjdTv6eg75D Smg5JoeiYTTsmjib5Oc3Wqs+70fyDD8dYhuCXz6CHWEfdIxBngtKig8Ct4kBxswz jAs73F0vEBSdSdltRXGaIB2I382DuRUET+rqQRhkBFFEps0B60m2IOubpt3p0myJ qidnu3IC9McucfbjkSqk6H2joOFDbiqxULg8q9daDc7ywRtt9buH80dLjjUOltOQ == X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9BCA17E571; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:16:47 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Timothy Redaelli Cc: dev@dpdk.org, echaudro@redhat.com, Jingjing Wu Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:16:46 +0100 Message-ID: <1923056.CMZaFarxgz@xps> In-Reply-To: <20171130122147.1d10053f@redhat.com> References: <3208097.sCyqhKb3JL@xps> <20171130122147.1d10053f@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: link with virtio PMD when using shared libraries X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:16:48 -0000 30/11/2017 12:21, Timothy Redaelli: > Just a little question: if testpmd loads the pmds dynamically using > dlopen, why in app/test-pmd/Makefile some PMD are linked at > build time? Some PMD have an API. That's why they need to be directly linked by the applications calling these driver-specific functions.