[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: firmware status check

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 12/14/2018 4:59 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 12/03/2018 08:07 AM, Zhang, Qi Z wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Li, Xiaoyun
>>> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 3:08 PM
>>> To: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
>>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
>>> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/i40e: firmware status check
>>>
>>> Check the firmware status at init time. If the firmware is in recovery mode, alert
>>> the user to check it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>
>>
>> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
>>
>> Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.
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> 
> This was applied with a 'Cc:stable' tag, but no 'Fixes' tag.

This fixes a behavior in the driver, but not a specific code/commit, and author
request this behavior change to backport. This request makes sense to me but
what do you think from stable tree point of view? Are you OK with this kind of
request?

> What stable branches is it relevant for?

I agree it is hard to define the scope of the fix without having the code that
is fixed. Do you have any suggestion how to formalize the request for these kind
of issues?

> 
>> Thanks
>> Qi
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