[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to LTS release 16.11.5

[Matan Azrad]

Hi Luca

From: luca.boccassi at gmail.com, Sent: Friday, January 26, 2018 3:31 PM
> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
> 
> I didn't manage to apply following commits from upstream to stable branch
> 16.11: conflict happens. I'm wondering can the authors check the following
> list and backport those patches belong to you?
> 
> FYI, branch 16.11 is located at tree:
>    git://dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
> 
> It'd be great if you could do that in one or two weeks. Also, please add a
> heading line like below before the commit log body:
>     [ backported from upstream commit xxx ]
> 
> Example:
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpd
> k.org%2Fbrowse%2Fdpdk-
> stable%2Fcommit%2F%3Fh%3D16.07%26id%3Dc4831394c7d1944d8ec27d52c2
> 2997f20d19718e&data=02%7C01%7Cmatan%40mellanox.com%7Cb0462279f1
> c8434d196408d564c10643%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C
> 0%7C636525702569275353&sdata=3ohSFBpIsLNVcXk444UP3dOJXOXEPcnJxxl
> %2B%2FEjFIDE%3D&reserved=0
> 
> Please let me know if you have any comments, say, need more time, or it's
> worthless to packport it. And please send it to "stable at dpdk.org", but not
> "dev at dpdk.org".
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Luca Boccassi
> 
> ---
> ee5d7bdda  Ajit Khaparde    net/bnxt: fix group info usage
> cab278dee  Jianfeng Tan     vhost: fix crash
> ae80146c5  Matan Azrad      net/failsafe: fix removed device handling

This patch is without Cc:stable so you should not backport it.

> b365799b3  Nélio Laranjeiro net/mlx5: fix un-supported RSS hash fields use
> 35906acbf  Olivier Matz     net/bnxt: fix headroom initialization
> b692c7e00  Qi Zhang         net/i40e/base: fix reading LLDP configuration
> 11c52927f  Qi Zhang         net/i40e/base: release spinlock before function
> returns
> 2b38f509c  Qi Zhang         net/i40e: exclude LLDP packet count
> f64b91b0e  Rasesh Mody      net/qede: replace config option with run-time
> arg
> a36880469  Victor Kaplansky vhost: protect active rings from async ring
> changes
> aa2919592  Wei Zhao         net/ixgbe: fix tunnel filter fail problem
> 6b75183ac  Wenzhuo Lu       net/ixgbe: fix wrong PBA setting
> c7bf62255  Yongseok Koh     net/mlx5: fix handling link status event