On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 05:38:40PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > If there is a failure to setup one pci device, there maybe other > devices that can be initialized. Don't call rte_exit which > is a forced crash, pass the error back to the > application to decide what it wants to do. > > Might be good idea to return a positive value for the > number of devices found, but that would break ABI. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
The return value from this function gets passed back to rte_eal_init() where it will still cause an application to terminate. Therefore, I think the commit message is a little misleading. Otherwise all looks ok to me. Will help weed out multiple device failures on a single pass too. /Bruce
