[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 19/25] eal: do not error if plugins fail to init

Aaron Conole aconole at redhat.com
Wed Feb 8 19:51:36 CET 2017


Plugins are useful and important.  However, it seems crazy to abort
everything just because they don't initialize properly.

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

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 14ec2e0..2ca6c20 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -878,8 +878,9 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	eal_check_mem_on_local_socket();
 
-	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init plugins\n");
+	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Cannot init plugins\n");
+	}
 
 	eal_thread_init_master(rte_config.master_lcore);
 
-- 
2.9.3



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