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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mk: reduce scope of whole-archive to pmd
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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:03:28 +0200
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2016-05-27 17:48, Ferruh Yigit:
> --whole-archive argument only required for pmd libraries, and currently
> it covers more libraries. Reducing scope of the argument to pmd
> libraries slightly reduce final application size.

In my understanding, --whole-archive is required for static libraries used
by plugins:
	http://dpdk.org/commit/20afd76a

If we want to restrict it, I would say it must be around EAL, ring,
mbuf, mempool, ethdev, cryptodev, etc.