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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: thomas@monjalon.net, dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] pci: fix missing pci bus with shared library build
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:11:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190719111128.2d0aba3a@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190716084423.GB561@bricha3-MOBL.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:46:04 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> I don't think the position of these is going to be the cause here, the more
> likely cause is that the pci bus driver - and all other drivers - are not
> linked into apps for shared library builds. You always need to pass "-d"
> parameter to load drivers at init time (or have them installed in the
> correct driver path). For example, for me with a shared library build the
> following gives a no ports error:
> 
> 	sudo ./build/l2fwd -c F00000 -- -p 3
> 
> while this succeeds and runs fine
> 
> 	sudo ./build/l2fwd -c F00000 -d $RTE_SDK/$RTE_TARGET/lib/librte_pmd_i40e.so -- -p 3


Application should never have to use -d to force driver load!
The purpose of all the pmdinfo, and probing logic is to not do this.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-15 23:41 Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-16  0:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-16  0:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-16  8:46   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-16 14:46     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-19 18:11     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2019-07-19 20:39     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-19 20:55     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-22  7:38       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-22  9:06         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-22 16:43           ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-22 17:04             ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-22 17:13               ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-22 17:31                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-22 18:34                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-23  7:59                     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-23 18:29                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-23 18:35                         ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-22 18:53                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-23 12:30                     ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-23 18:11                       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-07-24  8:56                         ` Bruce Richardson
2019-07-23 18:47                       ` Stephen Hemminger

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