[dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] build: enable Arm NEON flags when __aarch64__ is defined

[Honnappa Nagarahalli]

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 3:16 AM
To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>
Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>; nd <nd at arm.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] build: enable Arm NEON flags when __aarch64__ is defined

04/09/2018 20:53, Yongseok Koh:
> 
> > On Sep 4, 2018, at 11:41 AM, Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sep 3, 2018, at 1:25 AM, Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com> wrote:

> >>> I didn't check out the details yet but a quick question.
> >>> Do you want me to include this patch in 17.11.4?
> >>> 
> >>> Yes, please include.
> >> 
> >> I didn't realized that this is fixing the meson build.
> >> 17.11 doesn't have that.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Yongseok
> >> 
> >> It has a fix for the make build as well. Does it mean, it needs to be a different patch?
> > 
> > I could've applied the second hunk but actually it was one minute 
> > before the release of 17.11.4. I'm sorry that I had to skip this patch for the release.
> > 
> > But, I've applied it (the second hunk only) to the stable/17.11 tree today.
> > Please check it out and let me know if there's an issue.  This will 
> > be included in 17.11.5 (ETA is Nov).
> > 
> > FYI, the most favorable way is that you send patches with '[PATCH 
> > 17.11]' prefix based on the latest stable/17.11 so that it is never forgotten.
> 
> One more FYI.
> Even though this was sent to stable (without dev at dpdk.org), as you 
> have also sent a same patch[1] to dev at dpdk.org, this will be queued 
> for next stable releases anyway once it is merged to dpdk/master.
> 
> [1] https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-September/110713.html

There is no reason to send this patch specifically to stable at dpdk.org.
The usual process is to wait the patch is applied on master, then backport it on stable branches.

My apologies. I seem to have misunderstood a comment (http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-August/110342.html). Do we send patches to stable at dpdk.org only when the patches are backported?