[EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] examples/symmetric_mp: log/ignore promiscuous fail

[Thomas Monjalon]

03/09/2025 17:09, Matthew McGovern (LINUX):
> No reason other than to keep the patch small. I'll add some additional patches for the other apps. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 7:30 AM
> To: Matthew McGovern (LINUX) <Matthew.Mcgovern at microsoft.com>
> Cc: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH] examples/symmetric_mp: log/ignore promiscuous fail
> 
> 20/05/2025 20:37, mamcgove at microsoft.com:
> > From: Matthew G McGovern <mamcgove at microsoft.com>
> > 
> > The example apps have a few different failure modes when enabling promiscuous mode:
> > 
> > - testpmd will warn about the failure and continue.
> > 
> > - l3fwd has a flag '-P' to explicitly require promiscuous mode.
> > 
> > - symmetric_mp will exit with an error code
> > 
> > This patch changes symmetric_mp to warn and continue.
> 
> Why not doing the same in examples/multi_process/client_server_mp/mp_server/ ?
> What about other examples?

I think it's better making this consistent across examples.
Thank you for working on this.