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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 19:52 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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.

One problem is that it would add additional delay - rather than
preparing all stable releases at the same time, n-1 has to be done
first, then n-2, then n-3, etc

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi