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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: fix regression of plugins always
	requiring full path
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:29:31 +0100
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2015-11-23 14:05, Panu Matilainen:
> The added error checking on plugin initialization in
> commit 9f8eb1d9ca0f56d6292db5858c52e6873d0abe51 broke the ability of
> loading plugins by their basename from default linker locations.
> Only use stat() for directory discovery and leave error handling
> to dlopen() to restore former behavior.
> 
> Fixes: 9f8eb1d9ca0f ("eal: support driver loading from directory")
> Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks