Re: weak functions in some drivers

quoted

What is not clear to me is motivation to use weak here instead of simply using >CONFIG_RTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR
macro to exclude stubs in i40e_rxtx.c. It will make library smaller and avoid issues like this one
which are quite hard to troubleshoot.

Since this issue seen in fd.io, I didn't investigated more, but I don't
want to clock your valid question, this is an attempt to resurrect the
question ...

Hi,

We are having exactly the same problem. For us the aforementioned workaround doesn't seem to work and vector mode is always disabled with the i40e drivers. If I modify i40e_rxtx.c and exclude the stub functions using CONFIG_RTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR everything works as expected.

We are building DPDK with the CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS option enabled and link DPDK library to our application.

Any other ideas how this could be fixed?

Regards,
Matias