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From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: add drivers_install_subdir meson
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Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 10:46:02 +0100
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On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 10:25 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:17:14AM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 06:58:03PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > > Allow users and packagers to override the default dpdk/drivers
> > > subdirectory where the PMDs get installed under $lib.
> > >=20
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
> > > ---
> >=20
> > I'm ok with this change, but what is the current location used by
> > distro's
> > right now? I mistakenly never checked what was done before I used
> > dpdk/drivers as a default value, and I'd like the default to match
> > the
> > common option if possible.
> >=20
> > /Bruce
> >=20
>=20
> Replying to my own question, I've just checked on CentOS and Debian,
> and it
> appears both are using directory "dpdk-pmds" as the subdir name.
> Therefore,
> let's just make that the default. [Does it need to be configurable in
> that
> case?]
>=20
> /Bruce

If the default is the one I expect then I'm fine without having an
option (actually happier - less things to configure).

But in Debian/Ubuntu it's dpdk-MAJORVER-drivers since last January :-)
We changed because using a single directory creates problems when
multiple different ABI versions are installed, due to the EAL autoload
from that directory. So we need a different subdirectory per ABI
revision.

We were actually talking with Timothy a while ago to make this
consistent across our distros, and perhaps Marco can chip in as well.

Timothy, Marco, is using dpdk-MAJORVER-$something ok for you? I'm not
too fussy on $something, it can be drivers or pmds or something else.

--=20
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi