Re: [dpdk-stable] patch 'net/sfc/base: fix error code usage in common code' has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 07:26:47PM +0300, Andrew Rybchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 06/20/2017 02:35 PM, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.05.1
> > 
> > Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
> > It will be pushed if I get no objections before 06/22/17. So please
> > shout if anyone has objections.
> 
> We have found out that the patch itself introduces the regression which
> is fixed in

Hi,

Thanks for letting me know!

> commit 0c27441ee0923bd221fc021b917ed03b02a94ad3
> Author: Andy Moreton <amoreton@solarflare.com>
> Date:   Thu May 25 13:58:30 2017 +0100
> 
>     net/sfc/base: let caller know that queue is already flushed
> 
>     Tx/Rx queue may be already flushed due to Tx/Rx error on the queue or
>     MC reboot. Caller needs to know that the queue is already flushed to
>     avoid waiting for flush done event.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Andy Moreton <amoreton@solarflare.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
> 
> which is not marked as a fix to be included in stable.
> So, please, either skip both patches (this one and 0c27441ee09
> mentioned above)  or, if it is possible, include both into the stable.
> Ideally squashed into one, if so, changeset description should be:

I will pick above commit as well. For stable releases, we basically just
__pick__ commits from upstream. We normally do not edit them. Thus, I will
just cherry-pick it.

	--yliu