On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 04:00:12PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 17:16 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > > --- > > drivers/net/meson.build | 4 +++- > > drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ > > 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > create mode 100644 drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/meson.build b/drivers/net/meson.build > > index 74f4109161..5906283c2f 100644 > > On request I've sent a v5 adding a note in the commit message that the > filename of the library will be different from the one generated by the > makefiles, as it doesn't have the _uio suffix, following the suggestion > to avoid renames. > > The following PMDs already have meson files which build a library file > with a different name from the makefiles: > > net/liquidio > net/thurnderx > net/sfc > event/octeontx > compress/octeontx > We should really start pointing people to use the pkg-config files to pull in libraries, and with a properly installed DPDK using "ninja install", all .so drivers should be automatically found on the PMD_PATH. Therefore, the number of cases where built-in DPDK drivers are being explicitly loaded individually using "-d <drivername>" should be very, very few.
Regards, /Bruce
