eal: do not panic on interrupt thread init

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / bsdapp / eal / eal.c

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index ff4225f..0c157b4 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -593,8 +593,10 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
                return -1;
        }
 
-       if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0)
-               rte_panic("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
+       if (rte_eal_intr_init() < 0) {
+               rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init interrupt-handling thread\n");
+               return -1;
+       }
 
        if (rte_eal_timer_init() < 0) {
                rte_eal_init_alert("Cannot init HPET or TSC timers\n");