[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: add git repo information for libraries

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Mar 13 08:35:37 CET 2019


13/03/2019 02:59, Ferruh Yigit:
> Add target git sub-tree information for libraries, this is mainly to
> reduce apply failures of the patches by automating target sub-tree
> selection for a patch for automation.
> 
> Also can be useful for developers to define which tree to base their
> patches for specific library.
> 
> Plan for DPDK Community lab is always try the main repo first, if patch
> fails to apply, detect and try on that detected sub-tree. This is to
> cover the case where sub-tree and main repo diverged and patch is based
> on sub-tree.
> Both because of above usage and to not create noise in file, git tree
> information is not added for libraries which target main repo, which is
> taken as default git repo.

I think adding tree info for PMDs is redundant.
Can we improve the script to smartly retrieve PMD tree,
based on the T: line at the beginning of the PMD section?





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