Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] nfp: add doc about supported features

[Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>]

On 12/16/2016 5:29 PM, Alejandro Lucero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One question about this patch. I will send another patch soon which will
> require to modify the file created by this patch. So, should I use the
> dpdk-next for sending the new patch or the dpdk stable branch? 

I guess by "dpdk stable branch" you mean dpdk main repo, because we also
have stable sub-tree which is something else.

> I
> understand that using the latter will imply some integration later, but
> I really do not know if I should facilitate things using dpdk-next in
> this case. 

If the patch is driver patch, please send to the next-net sub-tree, as a
PMD maintainer, I expect majority of your patches should target next-net.

If patch just touches the documentation of the driver, you can send it
to the main tree, but both next-net sub-tree and main tree are OK since
PMD documentation is not heavily modified, integration will be (mostly)
easy.

Specific to the this document (feature.ini), since this is directly
correlated with PMD source code, to update this file, you need to update
the source code. And it is better to update this document in next-net as
part of the patchset that updates the PMD code.

> 
> By the way, it is not just about this specific patch, because I have
> other almost ready which I want to push before the 16.02 deadline.

Please push 17.02 patches as soon as possible, although there is
technically still some time for the integration deadline, practically
there is less because of holidays in between ...

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