From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1204F8F9E for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2015 18:20:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by wmww144 with SMTP id w144so73586255wmw.0 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:20:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=tP9B6/3hdLRHZ1+II9j0DhdkVBo0nwDqS/y01UEmGm0=; b=1vk44o1iiZ/w6IA9Vqa/Y2TwWFYbZSiAlFkg+kUgTPV+utKzcaIjN2VKSpDbrio5Bx z95H4zIqTfmgNNVz9ob7G/9UUI6S6iCIAd0xFJXN9Rlglq1XDCIk5KJjNNuA2iKCvZbp ayw/KW91f1skA8NmVxx55h/9qZeKHY9+xYw40o2QXYYwfwhQdYmjA690OtNhWqiQx1f2 utlRugKAO255rQYtfZP/Q7yblDMmEDcfk6may2PNiXL1VgltKekpx/996r9x7o9i6hIU qs/HYXaL8o8A62wnCQ6uQXGoYLs1kPHKGMpwDZR6tpPOrbAZWILxGNFYTRI0JmtNKqsW GbFQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=tP9B6/3hdLRHZ1+II9j0DhdkVBo0nwDqS/y01UEmGm0=; b=EfN2Vo1/bqJx2Py01Q9GBJKo/j4UsfACBzppoyTEcTQt8XWkY6wizDQBxBEZE30t5c 90CSVxkCjNxrwmKGBof2YMEMh8HxUgapHUsIIQXAvN4jLcddvgUrbJiuAvWG/S4yJ45g k5GL6/hAxgfDbPlvlTbV2FYUAMtnabXTPvHHNL9t1bwCLubWEGAWYiRtqD1aD13cre5M VugNevTv6aQ6sAhIN8KKNSCk78z1ZUyajwp9wk9iEtmkwf4Yj47g8bbtkmvm7gz5HhNk V/H0Jbvqr1ov+jZ2tOkIi6/BU3kKinvuz0DGcZaU7ogMXw1/ts8TeJ933zjguCULvlzW LtEA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmJ+mC/3zqkxwmaj548SDIkrTfnvvSLb/l+tTosG4mc5NkwVBsU0hdZeJM0PVPJre2etx+v X-Received: by 10.195.11.129 with SMTP id ei1mr21583241wjd.80.1449249616908; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z13sm12846498wjr.47.2015.12.04.09.20.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:20:16 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Panu Matilainen Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:19:06 +0100 Message-ID: <3710593.RiARQgaut7@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.1.6-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <079fa1cfc3550c8147ea8b137fa1bc0f34d051dc.1448375477.git.pmatilai@redhat.com> References: <079fa1cfc3550c8147ea8b137fa1bc0f34d051dc.1448375477.git.pmatilai@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: fix the combined library problems by replacing it with a linker script X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:20:17 -0000 2015-11-24 16:31, Panu Matilainen: > The physically linked-together combined library has been an increasing > source of problems, as was predicted when library and symbol versioning > was introduced. Replace the complex and fragile construction with a > simple linker script which achieves the same without all the problems, > remove the related kludges from eg mlx drivers. > > Since creating the linker script is practically zero cost, remove the > config option and just create it always. > > Based on a patch by Sergio Gonzales Monroy, linker script approach > initially suggested by Neil Horman. > > Suggested-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy > Suggested-by: Neil Horman > Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen As it is a big change and discussion is not totally closed, it is deferred to release 2.3. The fix from Ferruh could be sufficient for 2.2.