[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/3] net/ixgbe: fix build issue

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Thu Oct 26 13:39:07 CEST 2017


On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Ananyev, Konstantin
<konstantin.ananyev at intel.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nicolau, Radu
>> It can be disabled in the code, but as far as I know there is a general
>> push back against having conditionally compiled code. I originally had
>> the security sections in ixgbe PMD isolated, but the feedback was to
>> have them always on.
>> An alternative solution will be to remove the option altogether and
>> always build rte_security library.
>
> My vote would be to have it a mandatory library for ixgbe.
> Add it into DEPDIRS-ixgbe inside drivers/net/Makefile or so.

And then librte_security needs librte_crypto (if I am not mistaken).
So if we go this way, we must ensure the same is done in librte_security.


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David Marchand


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