2017-01-31 12:14, Ferruh Yigit:

Same PMDs provide device specific APIs. Bond and xenvirt are existing
samples for this.

s/Same/Some/

And since these are PMD libraries, there are two options on how to link
them.

1- They can be fully included to all applications, using common
rte.app.mk file by default.

2- They can be explicitly linked to applications that use device
specific API.

Currently option one is in use, this patch switches to the option two.

Moves library linking to the application of Makefile that uses device
specific API.

This prevent including these libraries into final applications that
don't use these device specific APIs.

That's an interesting point of view.
What about the other libraries automatically linked in rte.app.mk?
Could we make each application decide which library they want to be
linked with?