On 12.06.2013 09:51, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > From: Damien Millescamps <damien.millescamps at 6wind.com> > > Add an option to specify libraries to be loaded before probing the PCI. > > For instance, testpmd -d librte_pmd_xxx.so can be used to enable xxx driver > support on testpmd without any recompilation of testpmd.
What's the use case? Unless I'm missing something, testpmd still needs an explicit rte_pmd_foo_init() call. It's of course not difficult to sprinkle some __attribute__((constructor))'s into the pmd's, but without doing that (or something equivalent), what's the purpose of the change?
