From: Don Provan <dprovan@bivio.net>
To: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>,
Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: bus scan and probe never fail
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:03:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BY1PR01MB1386DB598A380C471E618FDEA04A0@BY1PR01MB1386.prod.exchangelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a3c6c6-8d50-8106-7c7f-9b5c8263ce96@nxp.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shreyansh Jain [mailto:shreyansh.jain@nxp.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2017 10:01 PM
> To: Don Provan <dprovan@bivio.net>; Jan Blunck <jblunck@infradead.org>;
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: bus scan and probe never fail
>
> ...
>
> > 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-11 0:03 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 [this message]
2017-10-11 22:32 ` Thomas Monjalon
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