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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/testpmd: link with virtio PMD when using
	shared libraries
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:23:40 +0100
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20/11/2017 11:27, Eelco Chaudron:
> On 17/11/17 17:19, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> > testpmd is often used inside a VM to test the OVS PVP scenario.
> > This commit makes testpmd to link to virtio PMD when DPDK is built as
> > shared libraries too.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <echaudro@redhat.com>

I really doubt it is the right fix.
This PMD should be dynamically linked with dlopen as a plugin.
It can be done with -d option or by specifying the plugin directory
at compilation time in CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH.