From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: move plugin loading to eal/common
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:07:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56277FF1.5070700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3136074.xcMQgt4DKX@xps13>
On 10/21/2015 02:53 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-10-21 12:15, Bruce Richardson:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 01:09:24PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Btw, returning an error here would change current behavior of dpdk loading
>>>>> drivers.
>>>>> Not sure we want this as people may rely on this loading not failing.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, dpdk currently doesn't fail if you pass garbage to -d, which is
>>>> actually fairly questionable behavior. Why would you load drivers with -d
>>>> if you dont care about them getting loaded? Well, maybe to handle an
>>>> "everything" case but that's much better handled with the driver directory
>>>> thing.
>>>>
>>>> So actually the current patches make things a bit inconsistent, why should
>>>> driver directories cause a failure if individual drivers do not? The
>>>> question is, which behavior is the one people want: I personally would
>>>> rather make -dgiddy.goo fail rather than just warn and chug away but its
>>>> not exactly a deal-breaker for me.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Neither to me.
>>> I agree on the principle of failing when passing wrong stuff, it is saner.
>>> I just want to make sure nobody complains about this change later.
>>>
>>> Thomas ? Bruce ?
>>
>> Error early rather than later. If the -d flag doesn't work crash then, rather
>> than leaving people having to scroll-back to find why their NIC isn't working.
>
> Yes, no reason to ignore errors.
Okay so we all vigorously agree on this :) Good then, I'll fix the error
behavior too in the next version.
- Panu -
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-21 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-25 11:58 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for driver directories Panu Matilainen
2015-09-25 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: refactor plugin list append from eal_parse_args() to a helper function Panu Matilainen
2015-09-25 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: add support for driver directory concept Panu Matilainen
2015-09-25 12:35 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add support for driver directories David Marchand
2015-09-25 13:00 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-14 10:41 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-14 11:55 ` David Marchand
2015-10-16 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5 v2] " Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] eal: refactor plugin list append from eal_parse_args() to a helper function Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] eal: refactor plugin init " Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] eal: move plugin loading to eal/common Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] eal: add an error code to plugin init for the next step Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 12:59 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-16 13:14 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 13:38 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 8:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-16 11:58 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] eal: add support for driver directory concept Panu Matilainen
2015-10-16 12:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] eal: refactor plugin list append from eal_parse_args() to a helper function Bruce Richardson
2015-10-16 13:07 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2 v3] Add support for driver directories Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal: move plugin loading to eal/common Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 10:15 ` David Marchand
2015-10-21 10:54 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 11:09 ` David Marchand
2015-10-21 11:15 ` Bruce Richardson
2015-10-21 11:53 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-21 12:07 ` Panu Matilainen [this message]
2015-10-21 8:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: add support for driver directory concept Panu Matilainen
2015-10-21 8:44 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-10-21 9:43 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-11-10 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/2] Add support for driver directories Panu Matilainen
2015-11-10 15:04 ` David Marchand
2015-11-12 15:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-03 2:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-03 2:26 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-03 7:59 ` Panu Matilainen
2015-11-10 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/2] eal: move plugin loading to eal/common Panu Matilainen
2015-11-10 14:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/2] eal: add support for driver directory concept Panu Matilainen
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