[dpdk-stable] please check if patch 'net/cxgbe: fix other misc build issues for Windows' is applicable to LTS release 17.11.6
Yongseok Koh
yskoh at mellanox.com
Tue Mar 12 22:28:11 CET 2019
> On Mar 10, 2019, at 3:13 AM, Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, March 03/08/19, 2019 at 23:39:01 +0530, Yongseok Koh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Even though the patch doesn't have "Cc: stable at dpdk.org" tag or "Fixes:" tag,
>> the commit log says it fixes some issue. Tags might be mistakenly missed. We
>> don't want to miss any fixes for stable releases. That's why I'm sending this
>> email.
>>
>> Please send backports if you think the patch should be merged to LTS release 17.11.6
>> Or, let me know if you have any comments, say, need more time, or it's worthless
>> to backport it. And please send it to "stable at dpdk.org", but not "dev at dpdk.org".
>>
>> FYI, branch 17.11 is located at tree:
>> git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
>>
>> It'd be great if you could do that in one or two weeks. Also, please add a
>> heading line like below before the commit log body:
>> [ backported from upstream commit xxx ]
>>
>> Example: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpdk.org%2Fbrowse%2Fdpdk-stable%2Fcommit%2F%3Fh%3D16.07%26id%3Dc4831394c7d1944d8ec27d52c22997f20d19718e&data=02%7C01%7Cyskoh%40mellanox.com%7C557b5b77ae9d4d67632e08d6a5418ea6%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636878098323509754&sdata=sQgQqWONbvvx0sM34wJlz%2B8qiBlWmnaMdS%2FSohty%2B7E%3D&reserved=0
>>
>> Also please mention the target LTS in the subject line, as we have
>> more than one at the same time, for example:
>>
>> [PATCH 17.11] foo/bar: fix baz
>>
>> With git send-email, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>>
>> --subject-prefix='17.11'
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Yongseok
>>
>
> Don't backport this patch. It fixes compilation errors reported by
> Intel C++ Compiler for the upcoming DPDK Windows OS support, and
> hence is unnecessary to backport to older stable releases that don't
> have DPDK Windows OS support.
Thanks for confirming.
Yongseok
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