[Bug 1239] VMXNET 3 returned the wrong error code in initializing

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https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1239

            Bug ID: 1239
           Summary: VMXNET 3 returned the wrong error code in initializing
           Product: DPDK
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: Low
         Component: ethdev
          Assignee: dev@dpdk.org
          Reporter: corezeng@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

To call rte_eth_dev_start() to start a device, this function calls the function
pointer (dev_start) that was registered by the specific device.
rte_eth_dev_start() judges the integer returned from dev_start to continue or
return an error. 

In the driver of VMXNET 3 the vmxnet3_dev_start is the function that needs to
be registered as dev_start, and it called vmxnet3_dev_rxtx_init(). 

In vmxnet3_dev_rxtx_init(), a wrong error code may be thrown after it invokes
vmxnet3_post_rx_bufs() because it negates the error code before returning it*.
It causes rte_eth_dev_start() to give a positive number to the invoker, but it
should be a negative number, as described in the comments.

*: At vmxnet3_rxtx.c:1318

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