When we pass a "-d" flag to EAL pointing to a directory, we attempt to load all files in that directory as driver plugins, irrespective of file type. This procludes using e.g. the build/drivers directory, as a driver source since it contains static libs and other files as well as the shared objects.
By filtering out any files whose filename does not end in ".so", we can improve usability by allowing other non-driver files to be present in the driver directory. Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c index 551507af1..1a836d70f 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_options.c @@ -352,9 +352,15 @@ eal_plugindir_init(const char *path) while ((dent = readdir(d)) != NULL) { struct stat sb; + int nlen = strnlen(dent->d_name, sizeof(dent->d_name)); + + /* check if name ends in .so */ + if (strcmp(&dent->d_name[nlen - 3], ".so") != 0) + continue; snprintf(sopath, sizeof(sopath), "%s/%s", path, dent->d_name); + /* if a regular file, add to list to load */ if (!(stat(sopath, &sb) == 0 && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode))) continue; -- 2.25.1