[ovs-dev] [PATCH] acinclude: Remove libmnl for MLX5 PMD

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jun 25 12:13:18 UTC 2020


25/06/2020 13:28, Timothy Redaelli:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 09:32:23 +0200
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:49 PM Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > libmnl is not used anymore for MLX5 PMD since DPDK 19.08.
> > 
> > Why don't you use pkg-config?
> > All these kind of dependencies are managed through libdpdk.pc
> > which is generated with meson.
> 
> Because on Fedora/RHEL we don't use meson (yet) since it's not possible
> to choose the list of PMDs to build and testpmd links to some of the
> PMDs we don't ship

Wrong: there is the option disable_drivers accepting a list.
Anyway, makefiles won't be part of DPDK 20.11.
You must switch to meson for DPDK compilation.




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