RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.9

[Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>]

Hi Luca:
	Sorry for the mis-understanding.
	Below patch doesn't fit DPDK 20.11 branch while it's for 22.11 backport:
	"ad4d51d277"  "Rongwei Liu  net/mlx5: forbid duplicated tag index in pattern template"

BR
Rongwei

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> Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.9
> 
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> 
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> Despite being selected by the DPDK maintenance tool ./devtools/git-log-
> fixes.sh I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to 20.11 stable
> branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 20.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 2023/06/23.
> 
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 20.11.9
> release at:
>     https://github.com/bluca/dpdk-stable
> It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts or
> misunderstandings.
> 
> Some notes on stable backports:
> 
> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit in it's
> commit message in the following fashion:
>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
> 
> For example:
>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-
> stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> 
> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>     [PATCH 20.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 20.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 20.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
> ---
> e97738919c  Chaoyong He      net/nfp: fix Tx descriptor free logic of NFD3
> c1f0cdae14  Dariusz Sosnowski net/mlx5: fix drop action attribute validation
> db42a84233  Dengdui Huang    app/testpmd: fix crash with invalid queue
> 0622428215  Jie Hai          net/hns3: fix missing FEC capability
> cd41a27154  Jie Hai          net/hns3: get FEC capability from firmware
> ad4d51d277  Rongwei Liu      net/mlx5: forbid duplicated tag index in pattern
> template
> 7ae50175c7  Saoirse O'Donovan test/crypto: fix return value for SNOW3G