[dpdk-dev] Did we reduce unnecessary linkage too well?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:26:48AM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Yup. Set CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH to the path where your PMDs are
> > installed. Note that since the plugin autoloader in DPDK doesn't make
> > assumptions about names, it'll try to load *everything* in that path, so
> > you don't want it pointing to eg /usr/lib directly.

Is this something we should look to change? To me having some sort of
naming convention might not be a bad thing, so that we can point it at generic
folders.

/Bruce