[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: fix the combined library problems by replacing it with a linker script

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 22:28:25 CET 2015


Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:31:17PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> The physically linked-together combined library has been an increasing
>> source of problems, as was predicted when library and symbol versioning
>> was introduced. Replace the complex and fragile construction with a
>> simple linker script which achieves the same without all the problems,
>> remove the related kludges from eg mlx drivers.
>> 
>> Since creating the linker script is practically zero cost, remove the
>> config option and just create it always.
>> 
>> Based on a patch by Sergio Gonzales Monroy, linker script approach
>> initially suggested by Neil Horman.
>> 
>> Suggested-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
>> Suggested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
> Nice work

+1, and just for good measure:

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>


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