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From: Matthew Hall <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Can not init NIC after merge to DPDK 1.7 problem
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:03:42 -0700
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 06:53:57PM +0000, Wang, Shawn wrote:
> Can someone share some light on what is magic of the dpdk Makefile to correctly register the NIC type?

I had the same problem as a guy who began using it before the auto-reg, 
stopped a while, and began again after.

You have to pass the following GNU LD option:

--whole-archive

Matthew.