[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 2/2] 3-request-backport: explain why patches are selected

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Tue Aug 10 18:58:11 CEST 2021


On Tue, 2021-08-10 at 16:24 +0200, christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> 
> In the past we had a few "hey why did you try in the first place".
> Since this is done based on the DPDK managed tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
> discussions improvements and changes need to happen there and not on the
> mail that that asks for backports.
> Therefore mention the tool that selected the initial patch list in the
> DPDK LTS process to guide everyone there as needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  3-request-backport | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/3-request-backport b/3-request-backport
> index 67234d2..eafd31e 100755
> --- a/3-request-backport
> +++ b/3-request-backport
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ cat << EOF
>  
>  Hi commit authors (and maintainers),
>  
> +Despite being selected by the DPDK maintenance tool ./devtools/git-log-fixes.sh
>  I didn't apply following commits from DPDK main to $stable_branch
>  $(stable_or_lts) branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi


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