Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] RFC: Support disabling DPDK drivers in meson builds

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 07:01:10PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-09-25 at 15:55 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > Following on from the discussion about meson at userspace 2019, here
> > is
> > a patchset which allows a user to disable drivers in a DPDK build.
> > This
> > set also includes the changes necessary to recursively disable any
> > drivers that depend upon the disabled one, e.g. disabling
> > mempool/dpaa
> > also disables net/dpaa and event/dpaa with suitable reasons provided
> > in
> > the output summary at the end of the meson configuration phase.
> > 
> > A number of changes are made to the lib/meson.build file too, in
> > order
> > to keep the general logic flow between drivers/meson.build and
> > lib/meson.build as similar as possible.
> > 
> > Example of use:
> > 
> > 	meson -Ddisable_drivers=mempool/dpaa,net/i40e build
> > 
> > Bruce Richardson (3):
> >   build: align variable names between drivers and libs
> >   build: process dependencies before main build check
> >   build: support disabling drivers with meson
> > 
> >  drivers/meson.build | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> > ----
> >  lib/meson.build     | 23 +++++++++++++----------
> >  meson_options.txt   |  2 ++
> >  3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> Series-grumbly-acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
>
Not exactly doing my happy-dance here myself about this set, but I think
it's something those building their own DPDK will appreciate.