[EXTERNAL] Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 24.11.4

[Sunil Kumar Kori]

> 
> > 743bbd3bd2  Sunil Kumar Kori net/ice: fix Tx packet prepare 19d7188f6f
> > Bruce Richardson net/ixgbe: fix Tx packet prepare
> > bd96307d15  Bruce Richardson net/fm10k: fix Tx packet prepare
> 
> Hi Sunil/Bruce,
> 
> These 3 commits ^^^ all have Fixes: tags pointing way back to adding tx prep in
> the drivers and because of that they are flagged for backport to LTS branches.
> 
> To me the commit (referenced in messages) that removed the NULL check
> 066f3d9cc21c ("ethdev: remove callback checks from fast path") caused the issue
> and should be the Fixes: tag.
> 
> That also seems to be what was correctly done for 9cd1dcc49eb3
> ("drivers/net: fix Tx packet prepare").
> 
> 066f3d9cc21c ("ethdev: remove callback checks from fast path") is not in LTS
> branches so in that case we don't need any fixes for it on LTS.
> 
> With that, I will drop these 3 patches from requiring backport to 24.11 branch. If
> any one thinks different let me know.
> 

Hi Kevin,
Yes, I am aligned with above explanation. @Bruce Richardson can comment on it for better 
Understanding as these are Intel driver fixes.

> thanks,
> Kevin.
> 
> > 5a753913e0  Monendra Singh Kushwaha common/cnxk: fix inline device
> > write operation
> > 3e48adc135  Pavan Nikhilesh  event/cnxk: fix Rx offload flags
> >
> >