Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] 3-request-backport: explain why patches are selected

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 16:24 +0200, christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com
> wrote:
> > From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> >
> > In the past we had a few "hey why did you try in the first place".
> > Since this is done based on the DPDK managed tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> > discussions improvements and changes need to happen there and not on the
> > mail that that asks for backports.
> > Therefore mention the tool that selected the initial patch list in the
> > DPDK LTS process to guide everyone there as needed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > ---
> >  3-request-backport | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/3-request-backport b/3-request-backport
> > index 67234d2..eafd31e 100755
> > --- a/3-request-backport
> > +++ b/3-request-backport
> > @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ cat << EOF
> >
> >  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 $stable_branch
> >  $(stable_or_lts) branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
>
> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>


Thanks, applied now

> --
> Kind regards,
> Luca Boccassi



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd