please help backporting some patches to stable release 23.11.7

[Shani Peretz]

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> Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 23.11.7
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> On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:19:15 +0300
> Shani Peretz <shperetz at nvidia.com> wrote:
> 
> > 00d41387a5  Stephen Hemminger net/mlx5: fix build with LTO
> Not urgent, uses __rte_assume macro which was introduced Commit
> bf7ded9a07f6 ("eal: add unreachable and precondition hints")
> 
> > abacc3b2da  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix handling of queue stats
> Depends on queue statistics changes introduced in 25.11
> 
> > 8c7751daa8  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix resource leaks on creation
> > failure
> Error path only, not really worth it.
> 
> > c67f59508d  Stephen Hemminger net/tap: fix Rx descriptor vs scatter
> > segment confusion
> This patch is too big to backport safely.
> 
> > 77f831b6f1  Stephen Hemminger pcapng: handle packets copied before
> > file open
> Not worth back port.

Thanks Stephen, will remove from the need to backport list