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

[Aaron Conole]

Plugins are useful and important.  However, it seems crazy to abort
everything just because they don't initialize properly.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 948393e..2fdafaa 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -876,8 +876,9 @@ 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);
 
-- 
2.7.4