From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>
Cc: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
bluca@debian.org, Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>,
stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] 17.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:52:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10687100.Bg4LDGQuS2@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180602051334.5vpjgalrfhlfjvk3@yuanhanliu-NB0.tencent.com>
02/06/2018 07:13, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:30:01PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > About the process, I wonder what should be the reference branch when backporting.
> > For example, could we use 18.02 stable branch to backport in 17.11?
>
> We normally do (and should) not do that. For fixes not from the master
> branch, the author should send a patch alone to the stable list, telling
> the maintainer this patch is stable only and should apply to stable
> release X, Y, etc.
Why we should not base branch n-2 on branch n-1?
If a backport effort is done to port a patch from n to n-1,
we could re-use that for n-2, instead of re-doing the same effort.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-03 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-27 5:35 Yuanhan Liu
2018-05-28 10:16 ` Kevin Traynor
2018-05-28 10:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-06-02 5:13 ` Yuanhan Liu
2018-06-03 17:52 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-06-03 20:23 ` Luca Boccassi
2018-06-07 23:09 ` [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] " Raslan Darawsheh
2018-06-08 14:29 ` Yuanhan Liu
2018-06-08 15:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-06-08 15:20 ` Yuanhan Liu
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