[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: check cpu flags at init

[Aaron Conole]

Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:43:37AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> My only concern is whether this change would be considered ABI
>> breaking.  I wouldn't think so, since it doesn't seem as though an
>> application would want to call this explicitly (and is spelled out as
>> such), but I can't be sure that it isn't already included in the
>> standard application API, and therefore needs to go through the change
>> process.
>
> I didn't want to change the original behavior more than needed.
>
> I think another patch would be necessary to change the whole EAL
> initialization because there's a bunch of rte_panic() there which
> aren't friendly with callers either.

Okay makes sense.

Acked-by: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>