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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, echaudro@redhat.com, Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: link with virtio PMD when using shared libraries
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:23:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3208097.sCyqhKb3JL@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f76597fd-8ded-5b61-eb47-ba95f4215059@redhat.com>

20/11/2017 11:27, Eelco Chaudron:
> On 17/11/17 17:19, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> > testpmd is often used inside a VM to test the OVS PVP scenario.
> > This commit makes testpmd to link to virtio PMD when DPDK is built as
> > shared libraries too.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>

I really doubt it is the right fix.
This PMD should be dynamically linked with dlopen as a plugin.
It can be done with -d option or by specifying the plugin directory
at compilation time in CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-29 22:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-17 16:19 Timothy Redaelli
2017-11-17 16:43 ` Luca Boccassi
2017-11-20 10:27 ` Eelco Chaudron
2017-11-29 22:23   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2017-11-30 11:21     ` Timothy Redaelli
2017-11-30 13:16       ` Thomas Monjalon

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