Re: [dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.3

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 17:29 +0800, Wei Hu (Xavier) wrote:
> Hi,  Luca Boccassi
> 
> On 2020/5/27 18:14, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> > 
> > I didn't apply following commits from DPDK master to 19.11
> > stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> > 
> > Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
> >      - Backport your patches to the 19.11 branch, or
> >      - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> > 
> > Please do either of the above by June the 3rd.
> > 
> > 
> > Some notes on stable backports:
> > 
> > A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK master branch commit
> > in it's commit message in the following fashion:
> >      [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk master 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 19.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> > 
> > With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
> >      --subject-prefix='PATCH 19.11'
> > 
> > Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> > 
> > FYI, branch 19.11 is located at tree:
> >     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Luca Boccassi
> > 
> > ---
> > 96477b5dd5  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of COS queue info
> > 205b742952  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of LED config info
> > 986fa3ba83  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of link info struct
> > e8fe0e067b  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix allocation of PF info struct
> > 29fdc5bf45  Apeksha Gupta    test/crypto: fix statistics case
> > fb94f35948  Chengchang Tang  net/hns3: fix adding multicast MAC address
> DPDK19.11 is the first version of the hns3 driver integrated into the DPDK.
> In this version, the features based on hns3 network engine are not complete,
> we prefer to recommend users to use the updated version.
> 
> "fb94f35948 Chengchang Tang net/hns3: fix adding multicast MAC address"
> For the above patch, we think that it will have little effect if this patch
> does not merged into the 19.11.x version.
> > a4e6ea97a5  Dekel Peled      common/mlx5: fix RSS key copy to TIR context
> > 1db72630da  Dmitry Kozlyuk   eal/windows: do not expose private facilities
> > 867b49d17a  Ferruh Yigit     ring: fix build for gcc O1 optimization
> > 48f9faddc6  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix MAC address setting when port is stopped
> > 10d6982008  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix recovery alarm race condition in port close
> > 920be799db  Lijun Ou         net/hns3: fix RSS indirection table configuration
> "920be799db Lijun Ou net/hns3: fix RSS indirection table configuration"
> This patch depends on the following patch:
>      "a951c1ed3 net/hns3: support different numbers of Rx and Tx queues",
> but the patch was accepted in dpdk20.02.0, not merged in dpdk 19.11.x.
> Can you give some suggestions?

a951c1ed3 does not apply cleanly either. If you'd like to have both in
19.11.3, please backport them both on top of dpdk-stable/19.11 and send
them to stable@dpdk.org. If you don't think it's worth having them,
that's fine too.