From patchwork Mon Feb 5 14:17:10 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Varghese, Vipin" X-Patchwork-Id: 34983 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039761B374; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 15:17:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F501B36A for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2018 15:17:05 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga001.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.23]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Feb 2018 06:17:04 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,464,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="28164730" Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([10.224.122.203]) by fmsmga001.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2018 06:17:03 -0800 From: Vipin Varghese To: dev@dpdk.org, marko.kovacevic@intel.com Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, Vipin Varghese Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:47:10 +0530 Message-Id: <1517840230-8982-1-git-send-email-vipin.varghese@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update the usage for shared library X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Add note information to intimate about use of option '-d' for shared library in DPDK application. Signed-off-by: Vipin Varghese --- doc/guides/nics/build_and_test.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/build_and_test.rst b/doc/guides/nics/build_and_test.rst index 62ac52c..9a96343 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/build_and_test.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/build_and_test.rst @@ -151,3 +151,8 @@ This section demonstrates how to setup and run ``testpmd`` in Linux. Refer to the :ref:`testpmd runtime functions ` for a list of available commands. + + .. note:: + + When dpdk-testpmd is built with shared library, use option ``-d`` to + load the dynamic PMD for ``rte_eal_init``.