From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Don Provan <dprovan@bivio.net>,
Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>,
Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: bus scan and probe never fail
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:32:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2083909.jE3c2aJxlO@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY1PR01MB1386DB598A380C471E618FDEA04A0@BY1PR01MB1386.prod.exchangelabs.com>
11/10/2017 02:03, Don Provan:
> From: Shreyansh Jain [mailto:shreyansh.jain@nxp.com]
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > From the application's point of view, the potential error here
> > > is that the device it wants to use isn't available. I don't see that
> > > either the init function or the probe function will have enough
> > > information to understand that application-level problem, so
> > > they should leave it to the application to detect it.
> >
> > I think I understand you comment but just want to cross check again:
> > Scan or probe error should simply be ignored by EAL layer and let the
> > application take stance when it detects that the device it was looking
> > for is missing. Is my understanding correct?
> >
> > I am trying to come a conclusion so that this patch can either be
> > modified or pushed as it is. If the above understanding is correct, I
> > don't see any changes required in the patch.
>
> Yes, I agree my comments support the patch as is.
> -don
Applied, thanks for the discussion
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-11 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-12 10:22 Shreyansh Jain
2017-09-18 11:36 ` Hemant Agrawal
2017-09-19 18:51 ` Jan Blunck
2017-10-05 23:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-06 13:12 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-06 13:37 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-06 17:34 ` Jan Blunck
2017-10-09 11:10 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-09 18:21 ` Don Provan
2017-10-09 19:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-10 5:00 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-10 16:00 ` Aaron Conole
2017-10-11 22:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-10-12 13:08 ` Aaron Conole
2017-10-12 5:39 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-12 13:20 ` Aaron Conole
2017-10-12 14:23 ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-10-11 0:03 ` Don Provan
2017-10-11 22:32 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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