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

[Richardson, Bruce]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sunil Kumar Kori <skori at marvell.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2025 4:44 AM
> To: dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>; Richardson, Bruce
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> Cc: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> <thomas at monjalon.net>; Marchand, David <david.marchand at redhat.com>;
> Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>; Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com>
> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: please help backporting some patches to stable
> release 24.11.4
> 
> >
> > > 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.
> 
I'm fine with dropping them. 

/Bruce