From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCC0379E for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 17:13:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 867B1C0AF3DE; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:13:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-41-137.bos.redhat.com (ovpn-113-156.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.156]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u1BGDq2I020640 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:13:53 -0500 To: Thomas Monjalon , Seth Arnold References: <20160211030540.GB25680@hunt> <2593509.xiuDro8IbH@xps13> From: Dave Neary Message-ID: <56BCB340.6040208@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:13:52 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2593509.xiuDro8IbH@xps13> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] thoughts on DPDK after a few days of reading sources X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 16:13:55 -0000 Hi, On 02/11/2016 02:58 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-02-10 19:05, Seth Arnold: > [...] >> It's nearly impossible to solve issues without error reporting. Good >> error reporting saves admins time and money. > > Until now, the errors were reported on the list and most often fixed quickly. > While I agree we need a more formal process (a bug tracker), I think we must > be noticed of new bugs on the mailing list. > Since nobody was against the bugzilla proposal, a deployment will be planned. > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-August/023012.html I may have misunderstood Seth's comment, but it looked like he was talking about checking errno after fopen and reporting the error with perror or strerror in the event of a non-zero return. Seth, did I understand correctly? Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary - NFV/SDN Community Strategy Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Ph: +1-978-399-2182 / Cell: +1-978-799-3338