"Richardson, Bruce" <[email protected]> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 9:26 AM >> To: Richardson, Bruce <[email protected]> >> Cc: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Stephen Hemminger >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of >> panic on init >> >> 2017-03-09 09:11, Bruce Richardson: >> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:58:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Thanks for the work. >> > > I think it needs to be completed to have the same behaviour on bsdapp. >> > >> > Ideally, yes, but I also don't think the lack of BSD changes should >> > block the inclusion of this set. In terms of application writers, the >> > apps don't need to be written differently for BSD compared to Linux >> > because of this change. All that is different is that the BSD version >> > will panic rather than return the error code. >> >> So you do not have any issue about having a different behaviour on Linux >> and BSD? >> You are the bsdapp maintainer, so it is your call. > > I would infinitely prefer to have the same behavior. However, so long > as this does not require a user to change their app to be different on > BSD, I don't think lack of BSD support should block improving Linux. > > Aaron - will you be able to do equivalent changes to BSD within the 17.05 > timeframe?
I'm going to spend some time next week looking into it. If it looks like it's akin to s/linuxapp/bsdapp/ and everything works, then I'll do it. If I get hung up on anything, I'll probably update with my status. -Aaron
