[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 15/25] eal: do not panic on alarm init

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:56:53 -0500
Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:

> +	if (rte_eal_alarm_init() < 0) {
> +		RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
> +		/* rte_eal_alarm_init sets rte_errno on failure. */
> +		errno = rte_errno;

Hmm. DPDK in general does not reset errno but instead uses error code
directly on return (best) or in some cases rte_errno