[dpdk-dev] [RFC 22/23] eal_common_dev: continue initializing vdevs

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Fri Dec 30 16:26:19 CET 2016


Even if one vdev should fail, there's no need to prevent further
processing.  Log the error, and reflect it to the higher levels to
decide.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c
index 4f3b493..9889997 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_dev.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ int
 rte_eal_dev_init(void)
 {
 	struct rte_devargs *devargs;
+	int ret = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Note that the dev_driver_list is populated here
@@ -97,11 +98,11 @@ rte_eal_dev_init(void)
 					devargs->args)) {
 			RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "failed to initialize %s device\n",
 					devargs->virt.drv_name);
-			return -1;
+			ret = -1;
 		}
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 int rte_eal_dev_attach(const char *name, const char *devargs)
-- 
2.7.4



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