RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.5

["De Lara Guarch, Pablo" <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>]

Hi Luca,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 12:14 AM
> To: De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
> Cc: dpdk stable <stable@dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.5
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 17:44, De Lara Guarch, Pablo
> <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luca,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: luca.boccassi@gmail.com <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022 9:32 PM
> > > Cc: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Chengwen Feng
> > > <fengchengwen@huawei.com>; Zhang, Roy Fan
> <roy.fan.zhang@intel.com>;
> > > Laatz, Kevin <kevin.laatz@intel.com>; Khoa To <khot@microsoft.com>;
> > > Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; Michael Baum
> <michaelba@nvidia.com>;
> > > De Lara Guarch, Pablo <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>; Shahaf
> > > Shuler <shahafs@nvidia.com>; Tal Shnaiderman <talshn@nvidia.com>;
> > > Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Yongseok Koh
> > > <yskoh@mellanox.com>
> > > Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release
> > > 20.11.5
> > >
> > > 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 03/07/22.
> > >
> > > You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming
> > > 20.11.5 release at:
> > >     https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable
> > > 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=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Luca Boccassi
> > >
> > > ---
> > > 033904450b  Chengwen Feng    dma/hisilicon: use common PCI device
> naming
> > > 6be4c57add  Michael Baum     net/mlx5: fix errno update in shared context
> > > creation
> > > dcbaafdc8f  Michael Baum     net/mlx5: fix sibling device config check
> > > a501609ea6  Pablo de Lara    crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset settings
> >
> > Apologies, but looks like the commit "crypto/ipsec_mb: fix length and offset
> settings"
> > Has introduced a bug which I am fixing now. I will send a fix to the
> > dev list soon, but I am wondering if it's better to combine it into a single one
> and push it to the stable list instead of backporting two commits?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please send the fix separately, so that we can better track the main branch
> version. If the fix doesn't get into 22.03, we can postpone both backports until
> the next stable release, to avoid introducing regressions.

Thanks for this. Both patches have been merged for 22.03, so I just sent the backported versions to the stable ML.

Pablo

> 
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi