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From: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 19/26] eal: do not error if plugins fail to
	init
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Plugins are useful and important.  However, it seems crazy to abort
everything just because they don't initialize properly.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index d174ad4..0ba9766 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	eal_check_mem_on_local_socket();
 
 	if (eal_plugins_init() < 0)
-		rte_panic("Cannot init plugins\n");
+		rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init plugins\n");
 
 	eal_thread_init_master(rte_config.master_lcore);
 
-- 
2.9.3