25/05/2018 11:55, Kevin Wilson: > Hi, > > I am facing the following issue in DPDK 18.05-rc5 (I saw it also with earlier > releases of DPDK from the last year). The issue is with defining > dependency on a kernel module in a PMD. > I want to develop a PMD which requiers that before running DPDK app which > uses this PMD, a specified kernel module is required to be insmoded. > I tried to add a call to RTE_PMD_REGISTER_KMOD_DEP in my PMD, > specifying a required > kernel module, and I expected that when calling a DPDK app which uses > this PMD it will shout that such a kernel module is not loaded, but this did > not > happen.
No such check is implemented currently. You can try to implement a check in EAL in the probing function.
