[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.7

[Richardson, Bruce]

No problem, Christian, happy to help, and thank you for doing the work of pulling together the LTS release.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 8:12 AM
> To: dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>
> Cc: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Jiawei Wang
> <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>; Lance Richardson <lance.richardson at broadcom.com>;
> Min Hu (Connor) <humin29 at huawei.com>; Yang, MurphyX
> <murphyx.yang at intel.com>; Shiri Kuzin <shirik at nvidia.com>; Yang, SteveX
> <stevex.yang at intel.com>; Suanming Mou <suanmingm at nvidia.com>; Tal
> Shnaiderman <talshn at nvidia.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release
> 19.11.7
> 
> Hi everyone,
> I wanted to use this chance to send my thanks to so many participating
> people.
> So far I've got some feedback about patches I don't need to care for
> 19.11.7 (thanks).
> But even more important we've had 9 active contributors providing 14
> backports already.
> Looking at past releases that is a good amount of feedback.
> And while I know that a good project is never built on just a few
> people, I still wanted
> to use the chance to thank the following people for their help on
> towards 19.11.7:
> 
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Jiawei Wang <jiaweiw at nvidia.com>
> Lance Richardson <lance.richardson at broadcom.com>
> Min Hu (Connor) <humin29 at huawei.com>
> Murphy Yang <murphyx.yang at intel.com>
> Shiri Kuzin <shirik at nvidia.com>
> Steve Yang <stevex.yang at intel.com>
> Suanming Mou <suanmingm at nvidia.com>
> Tal Shnaiderman <talshn at nvidia.com>
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Christian
> 
> P.S. github.com:cpaelzer/dpdk-stable-queue.git is updated with the
> above and I'm looking forward to further finalize this once 21.02 is
> released.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:39 PM Lance Richardson
> <lance.richardson at broadcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have posted these:
> >
> >   73d1cc96be  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: fix doorbell write ordering
> >   c86e930165  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: fix fallback mbuf allocation
> logic
> >   e750acef45  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: fix outer UDP checksum Rx
> > offload capability
> >
> > These are dependent on a number of changes that are only present in
> > 20.11 and later, I don't think they are good candidates for back-
> porting:
> >
> >   d5bbd72246  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: make offload flags mapping per-
> ring
> >   48a580c5df  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: set correct checksum status in
> mbuf
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd