Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for driver directories

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>]

On 09/25/2015 04:00 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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 :)

So...

Is this blocking on being Linux-only? I can have a look at moving the 
initialization to common/ if needed, but I wont be able test on FreeBSD.
I'd just like to get this functionality into DPDK 2.2 to remove one of 
those silly usability obstacles thats all :)

	- Panu -