[dpdk-stable] 17.11.3 (LTS) patches review and test

[Thomas Monjalon]

02/06/2018 07:13, Yuanhan Liu:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 12:30:01PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > About the process, I wonder what should be the reference branch when backporting.
> > For example, could we use 18.02 stable branch to backport in 17.11?
> 
> We normally do (and should) not do that. For fixes not from the master
> branch, the author should send a patch alone to the stable list, telling
> the maintainer this patch is stable only and should apply to stable
> release X, Y, etc.

Why we should not base branch n-2 on branch n-1?
If a backport effort is done to port a patch from n to n-1,
we could re-use that for n-2, instead of re-doing the same effort.