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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 00/23] Refactor eal_init to remove panic() calls
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Hi Aaron,

2016-12-30 10:25, Aaron Conole:
> In many cases, it's enough to simply let the application know that the
> call to initialize DPDK has failed.  A complete halt can then be
> decided by the application based on error returned (and the app could
> even attempt a possible re-attempt after some corrective action by the
> user or application).
> 
> There is still some work left in this series.

Thanks for starting the work.
I think it is candidate for 17.05 and can be promoted in the roadmap:
	http://dpdk.org/dev/roadmap

Have you checked wether these changes are modifying the API?
Some doxygen comments may need to be updated when a new error code
is used.