[PATCH 00/10] centralise base code handling for drivers

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 08:37:20AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:09:49 +0100
> > Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Many DPDK drivers use the same pattern for base code handling, having
> > > a meson.build file in the base code directory which optionally defines
> > > some custom cflags for the base code build, then builds the code as a
> > > static library and extracts the objects from it. (The reason behind this
> > > is that, in meson, cflags apply per-object, so we need to have a
> > > separate build object for the base code to use custom flags)
> > >
> > > This patchset deduplicates this logic by putting it into the
> > > drivers/meson.build file, and allowing individual drivers to then just
> > > specify values for "base_sources" and "base_cflags".
> > >
> > > Depends-on: Series-34946 ("net/intel: clean up base code build")
> > >
> > > Bruce Richardson (10):
> > >   build: add generic support for base code in drivers
> > >   common/sfc_efx: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/hinic: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/intel: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/ngbe: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/octeontx: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/qede: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/thunderx: use common base code build handling
> > >   net/txgbe: use common base code build handling
> > >   raw/ifpga: use common base code build handling
> > >
> > >  drivers/common/sfc_efx/base/meson.build | 18 +++---------------
> > >  drivers/common/sfc_efx/meson.build      |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/meson.build                     | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  drivers/net/hinic/base/meson.build      | 16 +++++-----------
> > >  drivers/net/hinic/meson.build           |  1 -
> > >  drivers/net/intel/e1000/meson.build     |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/intel/fm10k/meson.build     |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/intel/i40e/meson.build      |  2 --
> > >  drivers/net/intel/iavf/meson.build      |  1 -
> > >  drivers/net/intel/ice/base/meson.build  | 22 +++++++---------------
> > >  drivers/net/intel/ice/meson.build       |  2 --
> > >  drivers/net/intel/idpf/meson.build      |  1 -
> > >  drivers/net/intel/ixgbe/meson.build     |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/ngbe/base/meson.build       | 12 ++----------
> > >  drivers/net/ngbe/meson.build            |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/octeontx/base/meson.build   | 19 +------------------
> > >  drivers/net/octeontx/meson.build        |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/qede/base/meson.build       | 17 +++++------------
> > >  drivers/net/qede/meson.build            |  1 -
> > >  drivers/net/thunderx/base/meson.build   | 10 +---------
> > >  drivers/net/thunderx/meson.build        |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/net/txgbe/base/meson.build      | 18 ++----------------
> > >  drivers/net/txgbe/meson.build           |  3 ---
> > >  drivers/raw/ifpga/base/meson.build      | 21 ++-------------------
> > >  drivers/raw/ifpga/meson.build           | 15 ++++++++++++---
> > >  25 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > Looks ok to me. Since depends on the Intel part, lets take this through next-intel tree.
> >
> > Series-Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
>
> While I can take this in next-intel, the required changes from the Intel
> side are already present in main, so this should be ok to take through
> either the net tree or, better, the main tree (since it's not just net
> drivers it affects).
>
> Thomas, David, do you want to take this (well, the v2) through main tree?

Sorry, I was looking at v2, but I replied on the v1 thread.
In any case, yes, I merged it to main.


-- 
David Marchand