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From: Antti Kantee <pooka-X3B1VOXEql0@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: add support for shared object drivers
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:58:13 +0200
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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?