2016-05-20 08:22, Panu Matilainen: > Ability to query individual DSOs is a building block for other things > like automation (you dont expect normal users to go manually loading hw > support modules for the OS either), but its not an end-user solution. > > Thomas said in http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-May/038324.html: > > "This tool should not behave differently depending of how DPDK was > compiled (static or shared)."
I meant the basic tool must be usable on static binary and shared library. > Its entirely possible to handle all the three above cases virtually > identically (point the tool to the app executable), so I have a hard > time understanding the level of resistance to handling the plugin case. We need first a basic tool. Then we'll check how to build on it for end user needs. I think you have some good ideas. We could also try (later) to inspect a running DPDK app.