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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethdev: fix wrong memset
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:20:06 +0100
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2017-01-20 16:04, Yuanhan Liu:
> Fix an silly error by auto-complete while managing the merge conflicts.
> It's the eth_dev_data (but not eth_dev) entry should be memset.
> 
> Fixes: d948f596fee2 ("ethdev: fix port data mismatched in multiple process model")

You should describe the impact on this bug.
It will be helpful for those testing the RC1.

> -	memset(&rte_eth_devices[port_id], 0, sizeof(*eth_dev->data));
> +	memset(&rte_eth_dev_data[port_id], 0, sizeof(struct rte_eth_dev_data));

The title should be contain the scope of the bug.
I suggest "fix data reset when allocating port".