[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] rte_bus_pci: remove unneeded library dependency.

[David Marchand]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 5:16 PM Gaëtan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 04:32:54PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:56 PM Seth Howell <seth.howell at intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The makefile in drivers/bus/pci specified rte_ethdev as a dependency for
> > > the library. However there are no actual symbols from librte_ethdev used
> > > in librte_bus_pci.
> > >
> > > Including librte_ethdev as a dependency only becomes a problem in some
> > > niche cases like when attempting to build the rte_bus_pci library as a
> > > shared object without building the rte_ethdev library.
> > >
> > > I specifically ran into this when trying to build the DPDK included as
> > > an SPDK submodule on a FreeBSD machine. I figure that since there are no
> > > real dependencies between the two, we should enable building
> > > librte_bus_pci without librte_ethdev.

Fixes: c752998b5e2e ("pci: introduce library and driver")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Seth Howell <seth.howell at intel.com>

> Yes this is fine.
> I've checked, when this Makefile was introduced first in v17.11, this
> dependency was not needed either. This means the Fixes: can go back to c752998b5.
>
> Acked-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com>

Applied, thanks.



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David Marchand