[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: don't crash if one pci device fails

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 05:38:40PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> If there is a failure to setup one pci device, there maybe other
> devices that can be initialized. Don't call rte_exit which
> is a forced crash, pass the error back to the
> application to decide what it wants to do.
> 
> Might be good idea to return a positive value for the
> number of devices found, but that would break ABI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>

The return value from this function gets passed back to rte_eal_init() where
it will still cause an application to terminate. Therefore, I think the 
commit message is a little misleading.

Otherwise all looks ok to me. Will help weed out multiple device failures on
a single pass too.

/Bruce