Re: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.8

["lihuisong (C)" <lihuisong@huawei.com>]

Hi Luca Boccassi,

No need to backport the following patch, thanks.
8e9bd29995  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix empty devargs parsing

Best Regards,
Huisong

在 2023/3/16 6:49, luca.boccassi@gmail.com 写道:
> 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 22/03/23.
>
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 20.11.8
> 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
>
> ---
> 8e9bd29995  Chengwen Feng    net/hns3: fix empty devargs parsing
> b15d75b287  Gerry Gribbon    regex/mlx5: fix doorbell record
> eb3ef9e0d7  Huisong Li       net/hns3: add verification of RSS types
> e3069658da  Huisong Li       net/hns3: reimplement hash flow function
> 5028f207a4  Shiyang He       app/testpmd: fix secondary process packet forwarding
> .