Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/30] net/sfc: log port ID as 16-bit unsigned integer on panic

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 2/7/2019 12:17 PM, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> From: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
> 
> Fixes: f8244c6399d9 ("ethdev: increase port id range")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/sfc/sfc_debug.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_debug.h b/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_debug.h
> index 6b600ff4d..62f3937e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_debug.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/sfc_debug.h
> @@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
>  	do {								\
>  		const struct sfc_adapter *_sa = (sa);			\
>  									\
> -		rte_panic("sfc " PCI_PRI_FMT " #%" PRIu8 ": " fmt "\n",	\
> +		rte_panic("sfc " PCI_PRI_FMT				\
> +			  " #%" PRIu16 ": " fmt "\n",			\
>  			  _sa->pci_addr.domain, _sa->pci_addr.bus,	\
>  			  _sa->pci_addr.devid, _sa->pci_addr.function,	\
>  			  _sa->port_id, ##args);			\
> 

Overall it may not be good idea to call rte_panic() from driver. rte_panic()
cause the DPDK application to terminate, if a driver fails application may
prefer to handle that error and continue to run, so terminate decision should be
from application not library.

Can you please double check if rte_panic() usages in the driver can be converted
to error reporting?