On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:32:06AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 05/24/2016 10:41 PM, Neil Horman wrote: > > Hey all- > > So heres attempt number 2 at a method for exporting PMD hardware support > > information. As we discussed previously, the consensus seems to be that pmd > > information should be: > > > > 1) Able to be interrogated on any ELF binary (application binary or > > individual > > DSO) > > 2) Equally functional on statically linked applications or on DSO's > > 3) Resilient to symbol stripping > > 4) Script friendly > > 5) Show kernel dependencies > > 6) List driver options > > 7) Show driver name > > 8) Offer human readable output > > 9) Show DPDK version > > 10) Show driver version > > 11) Allow for expansion > > 12) Not place additional build environment dependencies on an application > > > [...] > > v4) > > * Modified the operation of the -p option. As much as I don't like implying > > that autoloaded pmds are guaranteed to be there at run time, I'm having a > > hard > > time seeing how we can avoid specifying the application file to scan for the > > autoload directory. Without it we can't determine which library the user > > means > > in a multiversion installation > > * Cleaned up the help text > > * Added a rule for an install target for pmdinfo > > * Guarded against some tracebacks in pmdinfo > > * Use DT_NEEDED entries to get versioned libraries in -p mode > > Thank you! That's exactly what I've been asking for all along. > Well, don't thank me, I'm not a big fan of it, I just don't see a way around it at this point, not without some heuristic thats going to be wrong half the time.
> > * Fixed traceback that occurs on lack of input arguments > > * Fixed some erroneous macro usage in drivers that aren't in the default > > build > > > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> > > CC: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> > > CC: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> > > CC: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org> > > CC: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> > > /me happy now, so: > > Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com> > thanks Neil > As always there might be some refining to do as we get more experience with > it but it seems like a fine starting point to me. > > - Panu - >
