RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 21.11.2

["Jiawen Wu" <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 6:02 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> Despite being selected by the DPDK maintenance
> tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh I didn't apply following commits from
DPDK main
> to 21.11 stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 21.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 06/23/22.
> 
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 21.11.2
> release at:
>     https://github.com/kevintraynor/dpdk-stable
> It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts
or
> misunderstandings.
> 
> Some notes on stable backports:
> 
> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit in
it's
> commit message in the following fashion:
>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> 
> For example:
> 
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3
> 811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> 
> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in
the
> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>     [PATCH 21.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 21.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 21.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ---
> These commits have non-trivial conflicts while applying to 21.11 branch:

> 708ebe7d03  Jiawen Wu        net/ngbe: fix external PHY power down
> 6dcfb19f60  Jiawen Wu        net/ngbe: fix reading M88E1512 PHY mode
> 696a821178  Jiawen Wu        net/ngbe: redesign internal PHY init flow

Hi Kevin,

There is no need to backport these to 21.11.2.