[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 21/25] eal: do not panic on failed PCI probe

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Fri Jan 27 15:56:59 CET 2017


It may even be possible to simply log the error and continue on letting
the user check the logs and restart the application when things are failed.

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 2fdafaa..e77d7f7 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -938,8 +938,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 		rte_panic("Cannot probe devices\n");
 
 	/* Probe & Initialize PCI devices */
-	if (rte_eal_pci_probe())
-		rte_panic("Cannot probe PCI\n");
+	if (rte_eal_pci_probe()) {
+		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot probe PCI\n");
+		rte_errno = ENOTSUP;
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (rte_eal_dev_init() < 0)
 		rte_panic("Cannot init pmd devices\n");
-- 
2.7.4



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