Since PCI isn't neccessarily required, it may be possible to simply log the error and continue on letting the user check the logs and restart the application when things have failed.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index 0ba9766..b13e1dd 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -943,8 +943,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) rte_panic("Cannot probe devices\n"); /* Probe & Initialize PCI devices */ - if (rte_eal_pci_probe()) - rte_panic("Cannot probe PCI\n"); + if (rte_eal_pci_probe()) { + rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot probe PCI\n"); + rte_errno = ENOTSUP; + return -1; + } if (rte_eal_dev_init() < 0) rte_panic("Cannot init pmd devices\n"); -- 2.9.3