[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to LTS release 18.11.7

[Kevin Traynor]

On 18/03/2020 05:58, Somnath Kotur wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 10:23 PM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
>>
>> I didn't apply following commits from DPDK master to 18.11
>> LTS branch, as conflicts or build errors occur. Note, it may be
>> dependent on another patch below that has not been applied.
>>
>> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>>     - Backport your patches to the 18.11 branch, or
>>     - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
>>
>> Please do either of the above by 03/13/20.
>>
>> Some notes on LTS backports:
>>
>> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK master branch commit
>> in it's commit message in exactly the following fashion:
>>     [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk master branch SHA-1 checksum> ]
>>
>> For example:
>>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=d90e6ae6f936ecdc2fd3811ff9f26aec7f3c06eb
>>
>> When sending the backported patch, please indicate the target branch in the
>> subject line, as we have multiple branches, for example:
>>     [PATCH 18.11] foo/bar: fix baz
>>
>> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>>     --subject-prefix='PATCH 18.11'
>>
>> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
>>
>> FYI, branch 18.11 is located at tree:
>>    https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
>> ---
> Hi Kevin,
>             Only the following 4 bnxt patches will be needed, have
> just sent the backported versions of these patches to stable at dpdk.org
> 
>  f35eaaca5  Stephen Hemminger net/bnxt: fix crash in secondary process
>  d9fc6a0d0  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix probe in FreeBSD
>  8f3224f26  Kalesh AP        net/bnxt: fix IOVA mapping
>  975ff25e7  Rahul Gupta      net/bnxt: fix default timeout for getting
> FW version
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 

Thanks Somnath, I will apply these and remove the other bnxt patches
from the list.

> -Som
>