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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for driver directories
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On 09/25/2015 03:35 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello Panu,
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com
> <mailto:pmatilai@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     This mini-series adds support for driver directory concept as
>     described by Thomas Monjalon back in February:
>     http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-February/013285.html
>
>     Panu Matilainen (2):
>        eal: refactor plugin list append from eal_parse_args() to a helper
>          function
>        eal: add support for driver directory concept
>
>       config/common_linuxapp                     |  3 ++
>       lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c |  1 +
>       lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c          | 76
>     ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>       3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
>
> This patchset looks good to me.
> Is there any reason why we should only have this for linux ?

I merely followed suite with the related, pre-existing -d option which 
also only exists for Linux. And wondered about the same thing :)

	- Panu -