please help backporting some patches to stable release 24.11.5

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:11:13 +0000
luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:

> 5a9362386e  Stephen Hemminger examples/vmdq_dcb: initialize all configuration structures
Corner case in examples, not worth the effort.

> abacc3b2da  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix handling of queue stats
Depends on queue stat changes done in 25.11

> c67f59508d  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix Rx descriptor vs scatter segment confusion
Messy to backport and not visible to application as a bug.

> 77f831b6f1  Stephen Hemminger pcapng: handle packets copied before file open
Messy to backport and application depending on this is racy.