[dpdk-dev,v4,19/26] eal: do not error if plugins fail to init

Message ID 20170225160309.31270-20-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers

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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Aaron Conole Feb. 25, 2017, 4:03 p.m. UTC
  Plugins are useful and important.  However, it seems crazy to abort
everything just because they don't initialize properly.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 02b075c..2069b6f 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	eal_check_mem_on_local_socket();
 
 	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init plugins\n");
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot init plugins\n");
 
 	eal_thread_init_master(rte_config.master_lcore);