[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] examples/multi_process: fix RX packets distribution

[Gregory Etelson]

Hello Thomas,

> 
> 28/10/2021 17:35, Burakov, Anatoly:
> > On 28-Oct-21 4:14 PM, Gregory Etelson wrote:
> > >>> -     uint8_t client = 0;
> > >>> +     static uint8_t client = 0;
> >
> > Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov
> <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> 
> checkpatch has a message for you:
> ERROR:INITIALISED_STATIC: do not initialise
> statics to 0
> 

Turning the `client` variable to static ensured that the next time
the function will be called it will proceed iterating clients instead of
starting a loop from the beginning - that's the main idea of that patch.
The variable must be initialized to 0 because the application model 
requires at least a single client with index 0.
ANSI C allows static variables initialization to any valid value.
Do you know why the checkpatch utility denied such initialization ?

Regards,
Gregory