RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.6

["Xueming(Steven) Li" <xuemingl@nvidia.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu@trustnetic.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2022 3:13 PM
> To: 'dpdk stable' <stable@dpdk.org>
> Cc: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> Subject: RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.6
> 
> On Thursday, June 16, 2022 9:48 PM, Xueming Li 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 20.11 stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> >
> > Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
> >     - Backport your patches to the 20.11 branch, or
> >     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> >
> > Please do either of the above by 06/30/22.
> >
> > You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming
> > 20.11.6 release at:
> >     https://github.com/steevenlee/dpdk
> > 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=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2f
> > d3
> > 811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> >
> > When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch
> > in
> the
> > subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
> >     [PATCH 20.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> >
> > With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
> >     --subject-prefix='PATCH 20.11'
> >
> > Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> >
> > FYI, branch 20.11 is located at tree:
> >    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> >
> > ---
> > 6a925602a9  Jiawen Wu        net/txgbe: fix SGMII mode to link up
> 
> I prefer not to backport this patch to 20.11.
> It should be fixed after commit f611dada1af8 ("net/txgbe: update link setup process of backplane NICs"), add backport to 21.11.

Get it. Thanks for the feedback.