[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix plugindir processing to be filesystem agnostic

[Thomas Monjalon]

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