For now, do an abort. It's likely that even aborting the initialization is premature in this case, as it may be possible to proceed even if one bus or another is not available.
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 8274196..6d6b825 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c @@ -899,8 +899,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv) return -1; } - if (rte_bus_scan()) - rte_panic("Cannot scan the buses for devices\n"); + if (rte_bus_scan()) { + rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot scan the buses for devices\n"); + rte_errno = ENODEV; + return -1; + } RTE_LCORE_FOREACH_SLAVE(i) { -- 2.9.3