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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 2021-02-19 at 08:59 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> 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.

Great, thanks for confirming.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi