[dpdk-dev] weak functions in some drivers

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Mon Jun 27 20:13:15 CEST 2016


On 6/21/2016 4:01 PM, Damjan Marion (damarion) wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 

...

> 
> What is not clear to me is motivation to use weak here instead of simply using CONFIG_RTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR
> macro to exclude stubs in i40e_rxtx.c. It will make library smaller and avoid issues like this one
> which are quite hard to troubleshoot.

Since this issue seen in fd.io, I didn't investigated more, but I don't
want to clock your valid question, this is an attempt to resurrect the
question ...

> 
> BTW Looks like same issue is happening with fm10k driver.
> 



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