From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Kernel Module dependency in DPDK 18.05-rc5 and earlier DPDK releases
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 13:21:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2384240.a6VFuv6gqB@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wXJ4EYjkKvZdh6O8stw1zvYc4srTwjJsUhheC5vAZbqDQ@mail.gmail.com>
25/05/2018 11:55, Kevin Wilson:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing the following issue in DPDK 18.05-rc5 (I saw it also with earlier
> releases of DPDK from the last year). The issue is with defining
> dependency on a kernel module in a PMD.
> I want to develop a PMD which requiers that before running DPDK app which
> uses this PMD, a specified kernel module is required to be insmoded.
> I tried to add a call to RTE_PMD_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP in my PMD,
> specifying a required
> kernel module, and I expected that when calling a DPDK app which uses
> this PMD it will shout that such a kernel module is not loaded, but this did not
> happen.
No such check is implemented currently.
You can try to implement a check in EAL in the probing function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-25 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-25 9:55 Kevin Wilson
2018-05-25 11:21 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-05-25 13:20 ` Kevin Wilson
2018-05-25 13:57 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-05-25 14:54 ` Thomas Monjalon
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