[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 25/25] rte_eal_init: add info about rte_errno codes

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu,  9 Feb 2017 09:29:53 -0500
Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> wrote:

> + *   The error codes returned via rte_errno:
> + *     EACCES indicates a permissions issue.
> + *
> + *     EAGAIN indicates either a bus or system resource was not available,
> + *            try again.
> + *
> + *     EALREADY indicates that the rte_eal_init function has already been
> + *              called, and cannot be called again.
> + *
> + *     EFAULT indicates the tailq configuration name was not found in
> + *            memory configuration.
> + *
> + *     EINVAL indicates invalid parameters were passed as argv/argc.
> + *
> + *     EIO indicates failure to setup the logging handlers.  This is usually
> + *         caused by an out-of-memory condition.
> + *
> + *     ENODEV indicates memory setup issues.
> + *
> + *     ENOTSUP indicates that the EAL cannot initialize on this system.
> + *
> + *     EUNATCH indicates that the PCI bus is either not present, or is not
> + *             readable by the eal.
>   */

You might want to be less restrictive about wording in the comment.
In future more errors might be returned, and also for out of memory
ENOMEM is better.