From: Antti Kantee <pooka-X3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org>
To: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: add support for shared object drivers
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:58:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B87065.2020600@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B87027.40703-D3plGOiwsub1KXRcyAk9cg@public.gmane.org>
On 12.06.2013 09:51, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Damien Millescamps <damien.millescamps-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>
> Add an option to specify libraries to be loaded before probing the PCI.
>
> For instance, testpmd -d librte_pmd_xxx.so can be used to enable xxx
driver
> support on testpmd without any recompilation of testpmd.
What's the use case? Unless I'm missing something, testpmd still needs
an explicit rte_pmd_foo_init() call. It's of course not difficult to
sprinkle some __attribute__((constructor))'s into the pmd's, but without
doing that (or something equivalent), what's the purpose of the change?
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-12 7:51 [PATCH] eal: add support for shared object drivers Thomas Monjalon
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2013-06-12 11:55 ` Olivier MATZ
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2013-06-12 15:12 ` Thomas Monjalon
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[not found] ` <51B87027.40703-D3plGOiwsub1KXRcyAk9cg@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-12 12:58 ` Antti Kantee [this message]
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2013-06-12 14:54 ` Olivier MATZ
[not found] ` <51B88BA7.9080605-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-12 15:12 ` Antti Kantee
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