[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] examples/l3fwd: use reserved IPv4/IPv6 addresses

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 13:07:33 +0000
"Iremonger, Bernard" <bernard.iremonger at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 9:39 PM
> > To: dev at dpdk.org
> > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/3] examples/l3fwd: use reserved IPv4/IPv6
> > addresses
> > 
> > The l3fwd example should use the IPv4 addresses defined in RFC5735 and the
> > IPv6 addresses defined in RFC5180 for the L3 forwarding example Longest Prefix
> > Match table.  
> 
> There should probably be a fixes line.
> Also the commit line should have the "fix" keyword. 

The original behavior was not a bug. It was just a poor design choice.
Therefore the lack of fixes tag is intentional.
Also didn't want this patch to make it into stable release and risk breaking
some existing test bed.