RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 23.11.2

[Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>]

Hi Xueming,

ab1bb0c402  Peng Zhang       net/nfp: add check for numbers of VF representor port

This patch needs not be backported.

Thanks.

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> Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release 23.11.2
> 
> 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 23.11 stable
> branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 23.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 08/19/24.
> 
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 23.11.2
> release at:
>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/log/?h=23.11-staging
> 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 23.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 23.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 23.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> 
> ---
> 3a64e190bc  Chaoyong He      net/nfp: fix firmware abnormal cleanup
> 78bbab1628  Chaoyong He      net/nfp: forbid offload flow rules with empty
> action list
> 97039941b2  Frank Du         net/af_xdp: parse UMEM map info from mempool
> 17d5bc6135  Jack Bond-Preston crypto/openssl: make per-QP auth context
> clones
> ab1bb0c402  Peng Zhang       net/nfp: add check for numbers of VF
> representor port
> fde2a1cb34  Rahul Bhansali   net/cnxk: postpone disabling NPC Rx and MCAM
> df44ba7a3c  Tomasz Wakula    net/ice/base: fix preparing PHY for timesync
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