30/06/2020 18:37, Stokes, Ian: > > This series allows OVS to consume the DPDK libraries appropriately (static > > and > > shared) and simplifies the build. > > When building OVS with DPDK, without this patch, the linker would always > > pick > > the shared libraries over static even after specifying the -Bstatic flag. > > With this patch, no such behavior is observed. So, it would be very helpful > > for > > the OVS community if this patch is merged in DPDK. > > > > I would also ask this series to be back ported to 19.11 as OVS can > > immediately > > consume it on the latest master instead of waiting on the next DPDK release > > i.e > > 20.11 > > +1, if this would be possible to apply to 19.11 as a backport it would enable > OVS to move quicker and update the OVS Travis as well as docs and build > scripts rather than waiting for DPDK 20.11. Sunil has already been working on > these changes I believe. > > Alternatively if it cant be backported to 19.11, then possibly we could look > at merging Sunil's patches to the dpdk-latest branch in OVS once makefiles > are deprecated in DPDK master?
Why waiting for makefiles to be deprecated? These patches are merged in latest DPDK, so you can proceed in OVS.
