[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 00/14] eal: Remove most causes of panic on init

[Aaron Conole]

Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> writes:

> 2017-03-23 14:04, Bruce Richardson:
>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 04:19:26PM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> > In many cases, it's enough to simply let the application know that the
>> > call to initialize DPDK has failed.  A complete halt can then be
>> > decided by the application based on error returned (and the app could
>> > even attempt a possible re-attempt after some corrective action by the
>> > user or application).
>> > 
>> Ran a sanity test compiling with clang on FreeBSD 11 and had a quick
>> scan of the patches. All looks reasonably ok to me. Did not test on
>> linux.
>> 
>> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>
> Applied, thank you so much for this work.
>
> Do you plan to continue hunting rte_panic in DPDK?

I don't have any concrete plans to do so, but as I see them, I'll
generate patches.