[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for driver directories
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at redhat.com
Wed Oct 14 12:41:05 CEST 2015
On 09/25/2015 04:00 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 09/25/2015 03:35 PM, David Marchand wrote:
>> Hello Panu,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com
>> <mailto:pmatilai at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>> This mini-series adds support for driver directory concept as
>> described by Thomas Monjalon back in February:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-February/013285.html
>>
>> Panu Matilainen (2):
>> eal: refactor plugin list append from eal_parse_args() to a helper
>> function
>> eal: add support for driver directory concept
>>
>> config/common_linuxapp | 3 ++
>> lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 1 +
>> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 76
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>> 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>> This patchset looks good to me.
>> Is there any reason why we should only have this for linux ?
>
> I merely followed suite with the related, pre-existing -d option which
> also only exists for Linux. And wondered about the same thing :)
So...
Is this blocking on being Linux-only? I can have a look at moving the
initialization to common/ if needed, but I wont be able test on FreeBSD.
I'd just like to get this functionality into DPDK 2.2 to remove one of
those silly usability obstacles thats all :)
- Panu -
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