[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] test/test_mbuf: remove mempool global var

[santosh]

On Tuesday 20 June 2017 01:05 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

> 20/06/2017 06:14, santosh:
>> On Tuesday 20 June 2017 02:07 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>>
>>> 08/06/2017 16:28, Santosh Shukla:
>>>> Let test_mbuf alloc and free mempool.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla at caviumnetworks.com>
>>> Why Cc stable?
>>> Is it fixing something?
>>>
>> w/o this fix, application can't run more than once.
>> Reason: Static allocation of resources and exiting w/o freeing so leak.
>>
>> Patch makes app resource handling dynamic and Now user could run
>> test more than once and app exits gracefully. thats why Cc: stable a need (IHMO).
>> Thanks.
> OK
> So we need a Fixes: tag in order to be able to guess which
> release it should be backported to.

Hmmm, By git blame, Its a very early commit(af75078fe : first public release). And
I think this patch can't be back-ported. IMO, I would prefer to remove Cc: stable@
from git description area, suggestion? is it fine.

Yes, I will reword the git description.