[dpdk-dev,v2,19/25] eal: do not error if plugins fail to init

Message ID 20170208185142.28678-20-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Headers

Checks

Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch warning coding style issues
ci/Intel compilation fail Compilation issues

Commit Message

Aaron Conole Feb. 8, 2017, 6:51 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 | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 14ec2e0..2ca6c20 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -878,8 +878,9 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	eal_check_mem_on_local_socket();
 
-	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init plugins\n");
+	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot init plugins\n");
+	}
 
 	eal_thread_init_master(rte_config.master_lcore);