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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, zaiyuwang@trustnetic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/txgbe: remove the build dependency on security
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:39:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251126133925.7cb06815@phoenix.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19590B42346A2673+20251121061951.466049-1-jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>

On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:19:51 +0800
Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com> wrote:

> Now lib security is enabled by default, and cannot be disabled if the
> driver is intended to be used. But there are some functional scenarios
> where lib security should be disabled, just like to enale Tx descriptor
> hardware check. See commit 0eabdfcd4af4 ("net/txgbe: enable Tx
> descriptor error interrupt").
> 
> So remove the build dependency on lib security for the driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>

I would like a review by other maintainers.
Several other drivers including cn10k, cn20k, ixgbe already have
similar dependencies. Can't the security library just have stubs
to always return NULL if not used.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-26 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-21  6:19 [PATCH] net/txgbe: remove the build dependency on security Jiawen Wu
2025-11-26 21:39 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2025-12-16  6:12   ` Jiawen Wu

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