[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 10/14] eal: do not error if plugins fail to init

[Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>]

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>
---
 lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c   | 2 +-
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index e9a5d93..7c6dd4e 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ 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);
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index ecf567a..b2a9005 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ 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