From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBC0A0A02; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 02:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9584E406A2; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 02:58:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from szxga05-in.huawei.com (szxga05-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.191]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C334068B for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 02:58:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from DGGEMS411-HUB.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.58]) by szxga05-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4FDpx30zfnzwPh8; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 08:55:51 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.67.103.128] (10.67.103.128) by DGGEMS411-HUB.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.498.0; Tue, 6 Apr 2021 08:57:58 +0800 To: Ferruh Yigit , CC: Luca Boccassi , Kevin Traynor , Christian Ehrhardt , Thomas Monjalon , David Marchand References: <1617267209-25930-1-git-send-email-humin29@huawei.com> <61f1c3a3-ee4d-5606-4df0-579b5607010c@intel.com> <8ac461ed-021d-a017-fa79-167782df0247@huawei.com> <6c726d96-422d-61e0-0128-3622eb70aca7@intel.com> From: "Min Hu (Connor)" Message-ID: <9b652e18-affc-a3c7-7c57-b29a52bae476@huawei.com> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 08:57:58 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6c726d96-422d-61e0-0128-3622eb70aca7@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.67.103.128] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/hns3: use the correct HiSilicon copyright X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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" 在 2021/4/2 16:07, Ferruh Yigit 写道: > On 4/2/2021 2:45 AM, Min Hu (Connor) wrote: >> >> >> 在 2021/4/1 22:45, Ferruh Yigit 写道: >>> On 4/1/2021 9:53 AM, Min Hu (Connor) wrote: >>>> According to the suggestion of our legal department, >>>> to standardize the copyright license of our code to >>>> avoid potential copyright risks, we make a unified >>>> modification to the "Hisilicon", which was nonstandard, >>>> in the main modules we maintain. >>>> >>>> We change it to "HiSilicon", which is consistent with >>>> the terms used on the following official website: >>>> https://www.hisilicon.com/en/terms-of-use. >>>> >>>> Fixes: 565829db8b8f ("net/hns3: add build and doc infrastructure") >>>> Fixes: 952ebacce4f2 ("net/hns3: support SVE Rx") >>>> Fixes: e31f123db06b ("net/hns3: support NEON Tx") >>>> Fixes: c09c7847d892 ("net/hns3: support traffic management") >>>> >>> >>> Is backport not requested intentionally? >>> >> Yes, we think this is just spelling bug, which does not affect >> functionality, so there is no need to backport. >> >> By the way, Is there any standard for which patch should be backported? > > We are backporting fixes, unless the fix doesn't apply to an old version > somehow, like some patches fixes problems coming from external > components, like problem comes with new version of FW that is not used > by LTS code etc..., these doesn't need to be backported to old versions. > > Personally I am for backporting as much as possible, even syntax > changes, because in long term they may cause conflicts and cause trouble > merging actual fixes. Also for someone who gets a diff between latest > and LTS version code, it helps to reduce the noise. > Agree with you, done in v2, thanks. > cc'ed LTS maintainers for more authoritative response, at the end of the > day they get the patches to the stable trees. > >>>> Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) >>> >>> <...> >>> >>> >>> . > > .