[dpdk-dev] Pushing feature patches to DPDK stable release

[Kevin Traynor]

On 28/02/2020 10:46, Kumar, Ravi1 wrote:
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> Hi,
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Hi Ravi,

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> I want to understand details on DPDK mainline process.
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> Is it possible to upstream patches to the older stable branches, upstreaming to 18.11 as an example? How do we do it?
> 

There is information about the stable releases and what is backported
here: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/stable.html

(I have an outstanding todo to expand these docs a bit)

fyi - Luca and I did a presentation in September about DPDK LTS where we
touched on this also: https://youtu.be/6ipOgMhkpU4

thanks,
Kevin.

> Regards,
> Ravi
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