[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] buildtools: allow pedantic empty pmdinfo

[Thomas Monjalon]

05/02/2020 18:14, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 06:07:23PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > If a driver has no info generated by pmdinfogen,
> > and if this driver is compiled as pedantic,
> > then an failure would occur:
> > 	drivers/rte_common_mlx5.pmd.c:1: error:
> > 	ISO C forbids an empty translation unit [-Werror=pedantic]
> > Such error is triggered with the new mlx5 common directory.
> > 
> > In order to allow an "empty driver info" compiled in pedantic mode,
> > the script generating .pmd.c file is modified to add a static string
> > unconditionnaly.
> > The minimal generated code is:
> > 	static __attribute__((unused)) const char *generator =
> > 		"/path/to/dpdk/buildtools/gen-pmdinfo-cfile.sh";
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> 
> LGTM
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Applied, thanks, it will allow pulling next-net
without breaking debug compilation for the new ABI tooling.