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Subject: RE: [PATCH] Updated skeleton example code to better emit error
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> --- a/examples/skeleton/basicfwd.c
> +++ b/examples/skeleton/basicfwd.c
> @@ -188,11 +188,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  	/* Check that there is an even number of ports to send/receive on. */
>  	nb_ports =3D rte_eth_dev_count_avail();
>  	if (nb_ports < 2 || (nb_ports & 1))
> -		rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Error: number of ports must be even\n");
> +		rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Error: number of ports must be even, found %u =
ports\n", nb_ports);

Maybe "positive even"?