[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: add support for driver directory concept

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at redhat.com
Wed Oct 21 11:43:30 CEST 2015


On 10/21/2015 11:44 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-10-21 11:29, Panu Matilainen:
>> Add a new EAL option -D for loading all drivers from a given directory.
>> Additionally a default driver directory can be set in build-time
>> configuration, in which case it will be always be used when EAL is
>> initialized (but can be overridden or disabled with -D).
> [...]
>> @@ -955,6 +1004,7 @@ eal_common_usage(void)
>>   	       "  --"OPT_SYSLOG"            Set syslog facility\n"
>>   	       "  --"OPT_LOG_LEVEL"         Set default log level\n"
>>   	       "  -d LIB.so           Add driver (can be used multiple times)\n"
>> +	       "  -D DIRECTORY        Add driver directory)\n"
>
> Another idea: instead of adding a new option, why not make -d able to deal
> with directories?
>

If that's what you want, sure. Just wishing you'd come up with this idea 
a bit earlier :)

	- Panu -


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