From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Conole Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of panic on init Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:34:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20170227161811.12309-1-aconole@redhat.com> <3101203.dHUXMUouNS@xps13> <20170309091122.GA302480@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> <6402749.s9Uk5EBMcM@xps13> <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B066712F8D@IRSMSX104.ger.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Thomas Monjalon , "dev\@dpdk.org" , "Stephen Hemminger" , Flavio Leitner To: "Richardson\, Bruce" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69E84A65 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:34:33 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B066712F8D@IRSMSX104.ger.corp.intel.com> (Bruce Richardson's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2017 09:38:58 +0000") List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" "Richardson, Bruce" writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] >> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 9:26 AM >> To: Richardson, Bruce >> Cc: Aaron Conole ; dev@dpdk.org; Stephen Hemminger >> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of >> panic on init >> >> 2017-03-09 09:11, Bruce Richardson: >> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:58:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Thanks for the work. >> > > I think it needs to be completed to have the same behaviour on bsdapp. >> > >> > Ideally, yes, but I also don't think the lack of BSD changes should >> > block the inclusion of this set. In terms of application writers, the >> > apps don't need to be written differently for BSD compared to Linux >> > because of this change. All that is different is that the BSD version >> > will panic rather than return the error code. >> >> So you do not have any issue about having a different behaviour on Linux >> and BSD? >> You are the bsdapp maintainer, so it is your call. > > I would infinitely prefer to have the same behavior. However, so long > as this does not require a user to change their app to be different on > BSD, I don't think lack of BSD support should block improving Linux. > > Aaron - will you be able to do equivalent changes to BSD within the 17.05 timeframe? I'm going to spend some time next week looking into it. If it looks like it's akin to s/linuxapp/bsdapp/ and everything works, then I'll do it. If I get hung up on anything, I'll probably update with my status. -Aaron