[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 07/11 1/2] vdev: new registration API

[Thomas Monjalon]

2014-04-11 09:36, Olivier Matz:
> Instead of having a list of virtual device drivers in EAL code, add an
> API to register drivers. Thanks to this new registration method, we can
> remove the references to pmd_ring, pmd_pcap and pmd_xenvirt in EAL code.
> This also enables the ability to register a virtual device driver as
> a shared library.
> 
> The registration is done in an init function flaged with
> __attribute__((constructor)). The new convention is to name this
> function rte_pmd_xyz_init(). The per-device init function is renamed
> rte_pmd_xyz_devinit().
> 
> By the way the internal PMDs are now also .so/standalone ready. Let's do
> it later on. It will be required to ease maintenance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>

Applied for version 1.6.0r2.

Thank you
-- 
Thomas