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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net/gve: allocate RX QPL pages using malloc
To: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb@google.com>, Rushil Gupta <rushilg@google.com>, 
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Hello,

I wish for this fix to be backported to stable release 22.11 and 23.11
for DPDK. However, the patch as it is does not apply cleanly to either
release. What is the recommended way to include this patch in older
releases of DPDK? Should I create separate stable backport patches
that apply cleanly to each of the stable releases? Or will this issue
be resolved once stable maintainers attempt to apply the patch on
older releases?

Thanks,
Josh