[dpdk-ci] Master compilation failures in Intel CI

[Thomas Monjalon]

14/01/2020 08:18, Chen, Zhaoyan:
> - most of the patches in patchset are aimed to specific PMD driver, 
>    but just several patches for makefile/build script/config file(common files).. in patchset. 
>    (e.g. https://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/64384/)
>    This kind of patchset will be pointed to dpdk master

We should filter out config/, mk/ and MAINTAINERS in the decision.


> - one patchset includes document change and other specific PMD driver change. 
>   This kind of patchset will be pointed to dpdk master

For doc/, we must make sure each part of the doc is well sorted
in MAINTAINERS so we can distinguish crypto and ethdev docs for instance.


> For these 2 situations, basically, next-* branches are ahead of master, 
> developers expected their patches could be tested on next-*, since that is code base under developing. 
> 
> So applying these kinds of patchsets to next-* are more meaningful for them.

I agree.