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 749ECA0A0A for ; Thu, 20 May 2021 10:13:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F9040041; Thu, 20 May 2021 10:13:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DCE40041 for ; Thu, 20 May 2021 10:13:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 055-100-000-128.ip-addr.inexio.net ([128.0.100.55] helo=Keschdeichel.fritz.box) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1ljdoQ-0000h6-H3; Thu, 20 May 2021 08:13:46 +0000 From: Christian Ehrhardt To: stable@dpdk.org, Thomas Monjalon , Luca Boccassi Cc: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 10:13:44 +0200 Message-Id: <20210520081344.1973634-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] README: clarify that step 3 should run on latest main X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: stable-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "stable" Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt --- README | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 920cf3c..0f5ae88 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ The 'devtools/get-maintainer.sh' tool from the DPDK repository is used to compile the list of maintainers to CC for each patch. A configuration file needs to be set up first, see the script itself for instructions. +It is highly recommended to check out the most recent upstream/main branch +in $STABLE_DIR as the tools will make use of the MAINTAINERS file found there. +If not checking out the latest the generated addresses might be outdated and +not reach the current maintainers. + If you use GIT_AM_PAUSE_ON_FAIL="yes" you can call 3-request-backport without a list and it will process patches in xx.yy.z/tmp_import/list that it does not find as applied in the git history from the current head. -- 2.31.1