> -----Original Message----- > From: Shreyansh Jain [mailto:shreyansh.j...@nxp.com] > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 10:01 PM > To: Don Provan <dpro...@bivio.net>; Jan Blunck <jblu...@infradead.org>; > Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agra...@nxp.com> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: bus scan and probe never fail > > ... > > > From the application's point of view, the potential error here > > is that the device it wants to use isn't available. I don't see that > > either the init function or the probe function will have enough > > information to understand that application-level problem, so > > they should leave it to the application to detect it. > > I think I understand you comment but just want to cross check again: > Scan or probe error should simply be ignored by EAL layer and let the > application take stance when it detects that the device it was looking > for is missing. Is my understanding correct? > > I am trying to come a conclusion so that this patch can either be > modified or pushed as it is. If the above understanding is correct, I > don't see any changes required in the patch.
Yes, I agree my comments support the patch as is. -don
