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Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 09:19:33AM +0000, Gray, Mark D wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wojciechowicz, RobertX
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 8:51 AM
> > To: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>; Gray, Mark D
> > <mark.d.gray@intel.com>
> > Cc: stable@dpdk.org; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>; Devlin,
> > Michelle <michelle.devlin@intel.com>; Weglicki, MichalX
> > <michalx.weglicki@intel.com>; Thomas Monjalon
> > <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> > Subject: RE: [dpdk-stable] vhost: many vhost user ports (backporting to
> > v16.11)
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > > It is also worth pointing out that OVS 2.7 will use 16.11
> > >
> > > One question though: will they use v16.11.1 or something like that?
> > 
> > @Mark do you know what exactly version OVS is going to use?
> > 
> 
> We could specify what version to compile against in the documentation. OVS has a stable branch for 2.7 so we could update the documentation if we needed to use a specific tag/branch. In DPDK, does each stable release get tagged?

Yes, but the stable tree is located at

    http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/

	--yliu