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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Pushing feature patches to DPDK stable release X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 28/02/2020 10:46, Kumar, Ravi1 wrote: > [AMD Official Use Only - Internal Distribution Only] >=20 > Hi, >=20 Hi Ravi, Please remove the banner above, it is not appropriate for an open source mailing list. > I want to understand details on DPDK mainline process. >=20 > Is it possible to upstream patches to the older stable branches, upstream= ing to 18.11 as an example? How do we do it? >=20 There is information about the stable releases and what is backported here: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html (I have an outstanding todo to expand these docs a bit) fyi - Luca and I did a presentation in September about DPDK LTS where we touched on this also: https://youtu.be/6ipOgMhkpU4 thanks, Kevin. > Regards, > Ravi >=20 >=20