[dpdk-stable] Backporting rte_intr_ack

[Thomas Monjalon]

22/11/2019 16:12, Kevin Traynor:
> On 19/11/2019 10:40, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 14/10/2019 17:55, David Marchand:
> >> The api rte_intr_ack that has been introduced to fix a race condition
> >> observed with (at least) qede drivers/hw.
> >> This is an experimental api in master but it still fixes a problem, so
> >> I'd like to see this in stable branches.
> > 
> > This is more a driver interface than an API.
> > 
> >> Opinions?
> > 
> > If it comes with a fix in a driver, I think it is worth backporting.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I think fine to backport as it solves an observed problem for qede.
> However, a bit reluctant to update all the drivers to use it without
> acks from their maintainers.
> 
> Discussed with David offline and idea to backport and only update qede
> now. Other drivers can be updated if there is a request from
> maintainers. How does it sound?

It's better than nothing.
But it makes tracking of backports more difficult.
Is it a common practice to backport half of fixes?