Re: [PATCH 2/2] test/eal_flags: add EAL debug logs to recursive calls

[Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 03:17:43PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 17:45, Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > When we make recursive calls to dpdk-test to check flag support, either
> > as a secondary process or as another primary process, add the log-level
> > flag to give extra EAL output to help with debugging any issues. For
> > calls that are spawning another primary process, pass in --no-pci flag
> > too, to skip device probing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 
> On one side, the debug will probably help with future errors.
> But on the second change, the --no-pci stuff is not about debug it
> seems more like an actual fix (or well, a way to hide the issue in
> CI).
> 
> I would prefer we split in two.
> 
Good point, that is correct. I felt that sometimes we may be at the mercy
of the actual hardware the CI is running on, so disabling pci probing
should make things more reliable. Will see about splitting this patch into
two parts to evaluate separately.

/Bruce