Re: [dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 18.02.2

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2018-05-18 at 10:11 +0000, Richardson, Bruce wrote:
> Hi Luca,
> 
> my patch: "89200580e  Bruce Richardson kernel: fix cross-build of
> Linux modules with meson" depends on the patches moving the drivers
> to the kernel folder. As it's for meson build which was only in beta
> in that release, I don't think it's worth backporting.
> 
> /Bruce

Hi, makes sense, thanks for checking.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: luca.boccassi@gmail.com [mailto:luca.boccassi@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2018 10:47 AM
> > To: dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
> > Cc: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>; Andrew Rybchenko
> > <arybchenko@solarflare.com>; Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>;
> > Richardson,
> > Bruce <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Dumitrescu, Cristian
> > <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.
> > com>;
> > Rybalchenko, Kirill <kirill.rybalchenko@intel.com>; Luca Boccassi
> > <bluca@debian.org>; Matan Azrad <matan@mellanox.com>; Nelio
> > Laranjeiro
> > <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>; De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> > <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>; Pattan, Reshma
> > <reshma.pattan@intel.com>; Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumbe
> > r.org>;
> > Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release
> > 18.02.2
> > 
> > Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> > 
> > I didn't manage to apply following commits from upstream to stable
> > branch
> > 18.02: conflict happens. I'm wondering can the authors check the
> > following
> > list and backport those patches belong to you?
> > 
> > FYI, branch 18.02 is located at tree:
> >    git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> > 
> > It'd be great if you could do that in one or two weeks. Also,
> > please add a
> > heading line like below before the commit log body:
> >     [ backported from upstream commit xxx ]
> > 
> > Example: http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-
> > stable/commit/?h=16.07&id=c4831394c7d1944d8ec27d52c22997f20d19718e
> > 
> > Also please mention the target stable in the subject line, as we
> > have more
> > than one at the same time, for example:
> > 
> >     [PATCH 18.02] foo/bar: fix baz
> > 
> > With git send-email, this can be achieved by appending the
> > parameter:
> > 
> >     --subject-prefix='18.02'
> > 
> > Please let me know if you have any comments, say, need more time,
> > or it's
> > worthless to packport it. And please send it to "stable@dpdk.org",
> > but not
> > "dev@dpdk.org".
> > 
> > NOTE: for the patches using strlcpy, the issue is that strlcpy is
> > not
> > available in 18.02, so it would have to be backported as well.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Luca Boccassi
> > 
> > ---
> > 52f711f7b  Andy Green       bus/pci: fix size of driver name buffer
> > 7ee230e88  Adrien Mazarguil app/testpmd: fix weak RSS hash key for
> > flow
> > fe5f777b5  Andy Green       bus/pci: replace strncpy by strlcpy
> > f28742ba0  Andy Green       net/qede: fix strncpy
> > 0fa4f3eee  Andy Green       net/qede: replace strncpy by strlcpy
> > ed5b98483  Andy Green       net/sfc: make sure that stats name is
> > nul-
> > terminated
> > 89200580e  Bruce Richardson kernel: fix cross-build of Linux
> > modules with
> > meson
> > 1bdea6110  Kirill Rybalchenko examples/ipsec-secgw: fix IP address
> > parsing
> > b7a7c97a4  Nélio Laranjeiro net/mlx5: fix flow validation
> > ae943ebe1  Reshma Pattan    examples/ipsec-secgw: replace strncpy
> > with
> > strlcpy
> > 21ce8e44b  Reshma Pattan    examples/vhost_scsi: replace strncpy
> > with
> > strlcpy
> > be8cd2103  Thomas Monjalon  ethdev: fix port probing notification
> > e06227e2f  Thomas Monjalon  ethdev: fix port visibility before
> > initialization

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi