On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Stephen Hemminger < stephen at networkplumber.org> 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. > I don't see how this return code will help the application do something after this. You don't know which device probe failed with just this. rte_eal_pci_probe() returning a != 0 value will trigger a rte_panic in rte_eal_init() anyway. So I suppose you want to use rte_eal_pci_probe out of rte_eal_init. In such a case, why don't you use rte_eal_pci_probe_one ? -- David Marchand
