From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (mail-wm0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4584A2B8B for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2017 15:22:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id a197so366478101wmd.0 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:22:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8bbPth/G9leUsIFZYgbBOP/LOfK1jRjh63Y0qgrOkZo=; b=DiDdIkeFosDWgBiKUxs0LHe76PQdiNq6oGisVcbR9+mcWNLow4V82ct8PfWK0wueAR zsqnpmd70QxZkV9t3FLOXuWCmoQC68tUAd7PEv+3t67/fecDQEgmK8PfOCLUW0UGn3xK YjZv6XGzXkcCNS4I231qT1f1+quGh7V7+AUD5rGxBKqDauLs+1HKY9ytc9SWhTIQnoj4 1Dqd6lx5qB9vIkMEuHyWQk7CPBfNMxe0scN5Urbd/R8imNh0AyiQoP/8iGKK23UbmeBd xcB18EdJULNp95PDKZdue3YU0co4q5QVKbi5vMLOP0tJlHu255FDZGAG2GJvEUFOnjlt LZuw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8bbPth/G9leUsIFZYgbBOP/LOfK1jRjh63Y0qgrOkZo=; b=gxCBmgJ48tVJcqIIxe3WW9cIyNWikpj4rHPIbBA0Z1zgGxiyEBi2+eElv4Mdkpnld5 Af3X71tC9QX3Uj6bVXUwhdy+guj47lCvck+35GZh9STxNSwHjJ/aBY9TGhLHFN4D3znh PItX0MbW02GCOLjdXoWBuS97Eo4FrFI/u1csGgNVIVuSkU52y2GsX01HHmhx3o/PN5rj Muw8a1cK/2os4s/J94FqS4gPEaUDDMzRckMNkNJAQ04ZVQKzCSq3sezNU8Pu6U9x18b7 f7Nt06q2Zkoy5t/Jm7donUuqaQenF2ezlxNp60MPWMSRh5r8soRuqZqmPh5OQMk8e2iJ VgMA== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJ5Z5gPwnaexZ0s+oSMQllw510V16xKAOdl25Jz0sB+s9X8Ulx+xZVfPUFOYCjnH8p3 X-Received: by 10.28.56.132 with SMTP id f126mr49987372wma.126.1483366962014; Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z9sm35459749wjf.17.2017.01.02.06.22.41 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:22:41 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Aaron Conole Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:22:40 +0100 Message-ID: <1909688.GKiQWP6byZ@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1483111580-5397-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> References: <1483111580-5397-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/23] Refactor eal_init to remove panic() calls X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:22:42 -0000 Hi Aaron, 2016-12-30 10:25, Aaron Conole: > In many cases, it's enough to simply let the application know that the > call to initialize DPDK has failed. A complete halt can then be > decided by the application based on error returned (and the app could > even attempt a possible re-attempt after some corrective action by the > user or application). > > There is still some work left in this series. Thanks for starting the work. I think it is candidate for 17.05 and can be promoted in the roadmap: http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap Have you checked wether these changes are modifying the API? Some doxygen comments may need to be updated when a new error code is used.