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

[Stephen Hemminger]

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>