[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.1

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 2/5/2021 11:53 AM, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 20.11
> stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>      - Backport your patches to the 20.11 branch, or
>      - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 2021/02/19.
> 
> 
> Some notes on stable backports:
> 
> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
> in it's commit message in the following fashion:
>      [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> 
> For example:
>      https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> 
> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>      [PATCH 20.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>      --subject-prefix='PATCH 20.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 20.11 is located at tree:
>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
> ---
> c86e930165  Lance Richardson net/bnxt: fix fallback mbuf allocation logic
> d5be7f9375  Qi Zhang         net/ice/base: update add scheduler node counter
> 

Hi Luca,

Qi confirmed that a backport is not needed for the above ice driver, it can be 
skipped.

Possibly there will be a patch to stable tree for it, but it is not needed now.


Thanks.