On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:36:52AM +0200, Olivier Matz wrote: > Instead of having a list of virtual device drivers in EAL code, add an > API to register drivers. Thanks to this new registration method, we can > remove the references to pmd_ring, pmd_pcap and pmd_xenvirt in EAL code. > This also enables the ability to register a virtual device driver as > a shared library. > > The registration is done in an init function flaged with > __attribute__((constructor)). The new convention is to name this > function rte_pmd_xyz_init(). The per-device init function is renamed > rte_pmd_xyz_devinit(). > > By the way the internal PMDs are now also .so/standalone ready. Let's do > it later on. It will be required to ease maintenance. > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com> I just posted a patch to separate pmd linkage from the applications yesterday, which will work with the existing API. See my series on the introduction of the PMD_INIT and PMD_INIT_NONPCI macros.
Neil
