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From: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
To: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/mlx: fix rdma-core glue path with EAL
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On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 15:15:17 +0100
Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com> wrote:

> Glue object files are looked up in RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH by default when
> set and should be installed in this directory.
> 
> During startup, EAL attempts to load them automatically like other
> plug-ins found there. While normally harmless, dlopen() fails when
> rdma-core is not installed, EAL interprets this as a fatal error and
> terminates the application.
> 
> This patch requests glue objects to be installed in a different
> directory to prevent their automatic loading by EAL since they are
> PMD helpers, not actual DPDK plug-ins.
> 
> Fixes: f6242d0655cd ("net/mlx: make rdma-core glue path configurable")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Reported-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

Tested-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>

Tested with and without libibverbs installed and with an old version of
libibverbs installed and it works like it should.