[dpdk-dev] [RFC 10/23] eal: Do not panic on log failures

[Aaron Conole]

When log initialization fails, it's generally because the fopencookie
failed.  While this is rare in practice, it could happen.  Return
'Operation Not Supported' in errno, and let the caller know this error
occured.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index f996047..a23ba17 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -813,8 +813,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	rte_config_init();
 
-	if (rte_eal_log_init(logid, internal_config.syslog_facility) < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init logs\n");
+	if (rte_eal_log_init(logid, internal_config.syslog_facility) < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init logs\n");
+		errno = ENOTSUP;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_pci_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init PCI\n");
-- 
2.7.4