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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eal: fix plugindir processing to be
	filesystem agnostic
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:41:48 +0100
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Hi Panu,

2015-11-23 08:04, Panu Matilainen:
> On 11/20/2015 06:38 PM, David Marchand wrote:
> > It looks like you would skip the symbolic links while you were not before.
> > Intended ?
> 
> Intended. We want to accept symlinks in the driver directory, but the 
> actual drivers are always regular files.

No we use symbolic links:
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/mk/rte.lib.mk?id=133b75923
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/mk/rte.lib.mk#n170

On the same topic, you've added a check in 9f8eb1d9:
+		if (stat(solib->name, &sb) == -1) {
+			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Invalid plugin specified: %s: %s\n",
+				solib->name, strerror(errno));

It is a regression because we cannot anymore load a plugin from
LD_LIBRARY_PATH without specifying its full path.
It can be tested with scripts/test-null.sh.
How do you suggest to fix it?

Thanks