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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Ben,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Only bug fixes are backported to LTS. Not even new NIC drivers are backported.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Reference: </span><a href="https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html#what-changes-should-be-backported"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html#what-changes-should-be-backported</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Morten<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ben Magistro [mailto:koncept1@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 13 February 2023 17.47<br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:55 AM Bruce Richardson <<a href="mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com">bruce.richardson@intel.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:28:40AM -0500, Ben Magistro wrote:<br>> There is a thread discussing a change to the standard [1] but I have<br>> not seen anything explicit yet about moving to C11. I am personally in<br>> favor of making the jump to C11 now as part of the 23.x branch and<br>> provided my thoughts in the linked thread (what other projects using<br>> DPDK have as minimum compiler requirements, CentOS 7 EOL dates).<br>> Is the long term plan to backport this change set to the existing LTS<br>> release or is this meant to be something introduced for use in 23.x and<br>> going forward? I think I was (probably naively) assuming this would be<br>> a new feature in the 23.x going forward only.<br>> [1] [1]<a href="http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-February/262188.html" target="_blank">http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-February/262188.html</a><br>> <br>We don't bump requirements for older LTS releases, so any change to minimum<br>required versions would only be for the 23.x series releases<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I meant the atomics change set, I should have been clearer in that question, my apologies. If the atomic work is planned to be backported, the question of if/when the C11 standard would be adopted seems less relevant since it would need to be supported for DPDK versions that do not have the C11 standard requirement too.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>