Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] README: clarify that step 3 should run on latest main

[Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 10:13 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> ---
>  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 +If not checking out the latest the generated addresses might be outdated and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.

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi