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From: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: Igor Ryzhov <iryzhov@nfware.com>,
	Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
	dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] kernel/linux: fix kernel dir for meson
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 13:33:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191203053319.GA3210@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191202120819.GA25@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

On 12/02, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 07:34:54PM +0800, Ye Xiaolong wrote:
>> On 12/02, Igor Ryzhov wrote:
>> >We should at least install it into /lib/modules/kernel-version. For
>> >convenience, dpdk modules are installed into
>> >/lib/modules/kernel-version/extra/dpdk.
>> >In the cross-compilation case, you can use DEST_DIR to set some prefix.
>> >
>> >I don't really see the issue here. The description clearly says that
>> >headers must be in $kernel_dir/build which is usually a symlink
>> >to /usr/src/linux-headers-kernel-version.
>> >Just set kernel_dir correctly and there won't be compilation failure.
>> 
>> I think for cross-compilation case, user should be allowed to specify any kernel
>> src dir (it doesn't have to be /lib/modules/kernel-version) in his local system 
>> as kernel_dir that doesn't contain the build dir, in this case, current meson
>> build will skip kernel module compilation.
>> 
>
>I don't think we can take this change as the default, since the previous
>fix was put in for good reason.
>
>However, perhaps we can attempt to support both, using the checks below for
>"make kernelversion" in kernel/linux/meson.build. We can attempt using the
>directory with /build (as now) and then if that fails attempt without it (or
>vice versa).

After a second thought, I think it'd be better that we unify the meaning of
kernel_dir for both cases, it should be aligned with make's RTE_KERNELDIR 
variable that specify the directory contains kernel src code (or header), then
we don't need to distinguish these 2 cases in check (make kernelversion) phase,
we just need to assign different install dirs,

For normal case:

kernel_dir=/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/build
install_dir=/lib/modules/<kernel_version>/extra/dpdk

For cross compilation case:

kernel_dir=<Any kernel src dir specified by user>
install_dir=<Any kernel src dir specified by user>/extra/dpdk

What do you think (I've sent v2 according to above description)?

Thanks,
Xiaolong

>
>/Bruce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-03  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-02  6:14 Xiaolong Ye
2019-12-02  8:10 ` Igor Ryzhov
2019-12-02  8:39   ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-02  9:16     ` Igor Ryzhov
2019-12-02 11:34       ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-02 12:08         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-12-02 15:44           ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-03  5:33           ` Ye Xiaolong [this message]
2019-12-03 10:10             ` Bruce Richardson
2019-12-03  5:29 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] " Xiaolong Ye
2019-12-03 10:11   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-12-03 12:33     ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-03 13:58       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-12-03 15:01         ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-03 15:59 ` [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] " Xiaolong Ye
2019-12-04 13:51   ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Luca Boccassi
2019-12-04 14:18     ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-04 15:12       ` Bruce Richardson
2019-12-08  1:26         ` Ye Xiaolong
2019-12-09 12:12           ` Bruce Richardson

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