From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8595A6E for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:21:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Amp-Result: UNKNOWN X-Amp-Original-Verdict: FILE UNKNOWN X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Sep 2018 08:21:49 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.53,390,1531810800"; d="scan'208";a="81411866" Received: from bricha3-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.221.107]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 18 Sep 2018 08:20:49 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:20:48 +0100 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:20:48 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: Luca Boccassi Cc: dev@dpdk.org, keith.wiles@intel.com, roy.fan.zhang@intel.com, jingjing.wu@intel.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, rasesh.mody@cavium.com, harish.patil@cavium.com, shahed.shaikh@cavium.com, amr.mokhtar@intel.com, shijith.thotton@cavium.com, ssrinivasan@cavium.com, liang.j.ma@intel.com, peter.mccarthy@intel.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com, maciej.czekaj@caviumnetworks.com, arybchenko@solarflare.com, santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com, ashish.gupta@cavium.com, yongwang@vmware.com, thomas@monjalon.net Message-ID: <20180918152048.GA15080@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <20180910200415.8340-1-bluca@debian.org> <20180913161607.21919-1-bluca@debian.org> <20180913161607.21919-9-bluca@debian.org> <1537282812.10481.10.camel@debian.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1537282812.10481.10.camel@debian.org> Organization: Intel Research and Development Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 9/9] build: add Meson file for vmxnet3_uio PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:21:51 -0000 On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 04:00:12PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 17:16 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi > > --- > >  drivers/net/meson.build         |  4 +++- > >  drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > >  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > >  create mode 100644 drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/meson.build b/drivers/net/meson.build > > index 74f4109161..5906283c2f 100644 > > On request I've sent a v5 adding a note in the commit message that the > filename of the library will be different from the one generated by the > makefiles, as it doesn't have the _uio suffix, following the suggestion > to avoid renames. > > The following PMDs already have meson files which build a library file > with a different name from the makefiles: > > net/liquidio > net/thurnderx > net/sfc > event/octeontx > compress/octeontx > We should really start pointing people to use the pkg-config files to pull in libraries, and with a properly installed DPDK using "ninja install", all .so drivers should be automatically found on the PMD_PATH. Therefore, the number of cases where built-in DPDK drivers are being explicitly loaded individually using "-d " should be very, very few. Regards, /Bruce