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

[Yigit, Ferruh]

On 3/13/2019 7:35 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

As far as I know script has been updated to work without this patch, so updating
this patch status as rejected.