RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 22.11.3

["Xueming(Steven) Li" <xuemingl@nvidia.com>]

Hi Kishore,

Thanks for the confirmation!

If no "Cc: stable@dpdk.org" in original patch, the scanning scripts will ignore the patch.

Regards,
Xueming Li

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kishore Padmanabha <kishore.padmanabha@broadcom.com>
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> Subject: RE: please help backporting some patches to stable release 22.11.3
> 
> Hi Xueming,
> 
> The patch "8c047e823a  Kishore Padmanabha net/bnxt: fix multi-root card
> support" is not required for 22.11 release. This need not be backported to
> older branch.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kishore
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 8:07 PM
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> Nowlin
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> Jacob
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> Mingjin
> Ye <mingjinx.ye@intel.com>; Nithin Dabilpuram
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> Paul M Stillwell Jr <paul.m.stillwell.jr@intel.com>; Qiming Yang
> <qiming.yang@intel.com>; Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>; Randy Schacher
> <stuart.schacher@broadcom.com>; Satha Rao <skoteshwar@marvell.com>;
> Shahaji Bhosle <sbhosle@broadcom.com>; Somnath Kotur
> <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>; Sunil Kumar Kori <skori@marvell.com>;
> Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>; Venkat Duvvuru
> <venkatkumar.duvvuru@broadcom.com>
> Subject: please help backporting some patches to stable release 22.11.3
> 
> 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 22.11 stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
> 
> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>     - Backport your patches to the 22.11 branch, or
>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
> 
> Please do either of the above by 08/16/23.
> 
> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 22.11.3
> release at:
>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/log/?h=22.11-staging
> 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=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd381
> 1ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
> 
> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in
> the subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>     [PATCH 22.11] foo/bar: fix baz
> 
> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 22.11'
> 
> Send the backported patch to "stable@dpdk.org" but not "dev@dpdk.org".
> 
> FYI, branch 22.11 is located at tree:
>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
> 
> ---
> 3885644d91  Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan crypto/cnxk: fix order of ECFPM
> parameters
> 1c7a4d37e7  Harman Kalra     common/cnxk: fix mailbox timeout due to
> deadlock
> 8c047e823a  Kishore Padmanabha net/bnxt: fix multi-root card support
> 6fd3a7a618  Mingjin Ye       net/ice/base: fix internal etype in switch
> filter
> 
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