[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] eal: Support running as unprivileged user
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Feb 17 20:28:32 CET 2017
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:44:53 -0700
Ben Walker <benjamin.walker at intel.com> wrote:
> + if (physaddr == RTE_BAD_PHYS_ADDR) {
> RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL,
> - "Cannot open /proc/self/pagemap: %s. "
> - "virt2phys address translation will not work\n",
> + "Cannot obtain physical addresses: %s. "
> + "Only vfio will function.\n",
Please don't split a single error message across multiple lines. It makes
it harder for user to find the source code lines with simple grep.
Better to just have one long line for format string, or better yet be less wordy.
Yes, the existing DPDK code has lots of these issues.
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