please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.5
De Lara Guarch, Pablo
pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com
Tue Mar 8 18:40:19 CET 2022
Hi Luca,
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> Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>; Shahaf Shuler
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> Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
> Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.5
>
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
>
> Despite being selected by the DPDK maintenance tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> 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 03/07/22.
>
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 20.11.5
> release at:
> https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable
> It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts or
> misunderstandings.
>
> 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
>
> ---
> 033904450b Chengwen Feng dma/hisilicon: use common PCI device naming
> 6be4c57add Michael Baum net/mlx5: fix errno update in shared context
> creation
> dcbaafdc8f Michael Baum net/mlx5: fix sibling device config check
> a501609ea6 Pablo de Lara crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings
Apologies, but looks like the commit "crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings"
Has introduced a bug which I am fixing now. I will send a fix to the dev list soon,
but I am wondering if it's better to combine it into a single one and push it to the stable list instead of backporting two commits?
Thanks,
Pablo
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