eal: do not panic if plugins fail to init

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>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/bsdapp/eal/eal.c
index 0c157b4..14935aa 100644 (file)
--- 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 (file)
--- 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);