[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] examples/l2fwd-cat: fix build on FreeBSD

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 12:34 +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 12:03 PM Bruce Richardson <
> bruce.richardson at intel.com
> >
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 11:56:04AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > >    On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:30 AM Bruce Richardson
> > >    <[1]
> > > bruce.richardson at intel.com
> > > > wrote:
> > > 
> > >      The definition of CPU_AND differs from Linux to BSD, so we
> > > need to
> > >      use
> > >      RTE_CPU_AND instead.
> > >      Fixes: f6baccbc2b3b ("examples/l2fwd-cat: add sample
> > > application for
> > >      PQoS CAT and CDP")
> > >      Cc: [2]
> > > stable at dpdk.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    This creates a dependency on backporting c3568ea37670 ("eal:
> > > restrict
> > >    control threads to startup CPU affinity") which introduced the
> > >    RTE_CPU_AND macro.
> > >    --
> > >    David Marchand
> > > 
> > 
> > Shall I drop the stable reference from the v2, then?
> > 
> 
> We can backport in 18.11, as I would expect c3568ea37670 to be
> backported.
> 
> The question is more what we want to do with 17.11.
> We could backport only the macro bits from this patch if needed.

If c3568 is not destined for 17.11.x, if you are up for doing the extra
work you can send the macro-only change as an individual patch to 
stable at dpdk.org (do not cc dev) and use --subject-prefix='PATCH 17.11'
- alternatively, the 17.11 maintainer can simply opt to not pick up
this patch.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi