[PATCH rdma-core v7 4/6] pyverbs: Add dma-buf based MR support
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at ziepe.ca
Wed Feb 3 17:56:54 UTC 2021
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 06:53:19PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > rdma-core uses cmake build system and in our case cmake
> > > find_library() is preferable over pkgconfig.
> >
> > Only the headers are needed, and they could be installed via
> > either the libdrm-devel package or the kernel-headers package. The
> > cmake find_path() command is more suitable here.
>
> Except if your distro is buggy (or doesn't support any gpu drivers at
> all) they will never be installed as part of kernel-headers.
pkgconfig is OK, we use it for libnl for similar reasons, I just don't
like it to see it used gratuitously as it can cause more problems than
it solves
Jason
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