From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2433A04E7; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:31:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A12F2C16; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:31:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E7F52BD3 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 17:31:52 +0100 (CET) IronPort-SDR: 2NWNc/kx4pOZR82HPThy6sXf60nlmi7qxSk80FggCCIf4xpieC1zmP/jtQ8J7jIGvexewW+aXY fXuaWhHP8ZIA== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9793"; a="186746322" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,445,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="186746322" X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Nov 2020 08:31:50 -0800 IronPort-SDR: ME0B+VKd1kYzDbMBv4iugbvUVk4qEyB1hRV1b+iMZ9AGP3ZjIu2FRpKI+SvCFDqXDLhjJfmcoA rB81xzd7A2/Q== X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.77,445,1596524400"; d="scan'208";a="538082125" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.213.219.143]) ([10.213.219.143]) by orsmga005-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Nov 2020 08:31:49 -0800 To: Andrew Boyer , dev@dpdk.org References: From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: <30d23f16-4ed9-c960-9c8b-aa2a58c1103b@intel.com> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 16:31:45 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Ionic PMD - can we still get patches into a 20.02 stable? 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 11/2/2020 4:17 PM, Andrew Boyer wrote: > Hello DPDK folks, > I am ready to start submitting some patches to bring the Pensando ionic PMD up to speed. The first batch will be a practice run of some minor things, if that’s acceptable. > Hi Andrew, If you recognized 'ionic' is marked as 'UNMAINTAINED' in the current tree. I would like to see it to get proper updates and be back up to date. > It appears that the 20.02 release is no longer being maintained. Is that correct? Is it possible for us to get patches into a new stable release of 20.02? They would only affect our PMD and not affect the ABI or anything. > 20.02 is no longer maintained. xx.11 releases are long term stable releases and they are maintained for two years. v18.11 is almost end of life, with the current release, v20.11, the v19.11 & v20.11 will be active LTS releases. > It looks like I have just about missed the boat on 20.11 - would you prefer patches this week or should I hold them until December? > As said above I am for getting updates, -rc2 is tomorrow so most probably it is already too late. But I am OK to get 'ionic' specific patches for -rc3 too, this gives an additional week for this release, if it is enough for you. But let me warn you, we are very close to the release, if something goes wrong with this last minute code, you many not have enough time to detect and fix it and driver may be released broken, which won't put you in a better situation. If there are issues that you can fix and verify with confidence in this short time frame, lets try to squeeze them, but if the changes are big I suggest waiting the next release.