From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] app/test_pmd: add tests for new API's Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:41:32 +0200 Message-ID: <2850526.ogb5UjoHqb@xps13> References: <1475231418-30717-2-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com> <1475837150-11190-3-git-send-email-bernard.iremonger@intel.com> <819331a6-6b39-5cae-468a-d447e094bb50@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org, rahul.r.shah@intel.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com, az5157@att.com To: Ferruh Yigit , Bernard Iremonger Return-path: Received: from mail-lf0-f45.google.com (mail-lf0-f45.google.com [209.85.215.45]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700806CB7 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:41:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-lf0-f45.google.com with SMTP id l131so14334758lfl.2 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:41:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <819331a6-6b39-5cae-468a-d447e094bb50@intel.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2016-10-11 16:09, Ferruh Yigit: > This will cause a compilation error for shared libraries. Because PMDs > not linked against application when compiled as shared library but used > as plugins. > > Since it has been decided to have NIC specific APIs, we need to re-work > that approach to fix shared library compilation. If testpmd uses the ixgbe API, it must be linked with the PMD. Is there any issue adapting the testpmd makefile? Hope that dlopen an already linked PMD is nicely managed.