[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 15/25] eal: do not panic on alarm init

[Aaron Conole]

Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 08:31:55AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:56:53 -0500
>> Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > +	if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) {
>> > +		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
>> > +		/* rte_eal_alarm_init sets rte_errno on failure. */
>> > +		errno = rte_errno;
>> 
>> Hmm. DPDK in general does not reset errno but instead uses error code
>> directly on return (best) or in some cases rte_errno
>
> I think we'll disagree on what way of returning error codes is best :-), but
> yes, DPDK does not generally modify errno.

Okay, I'll drop the errno set.  I think it's a mistake from the first
version of the series (as RFC).

Thanks for the reviews, Bruce and Stephen!