please help backporting some patches to stable release 19.11.11

[Maxime Coquelin]

Hi Christian,

On 12/2/21 14:45, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 5:56 PM <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 19.11
>> stable branch, as conflicts or build errors occur.
>>
>> Can authors check your patches in the following list and either:
>>      - Backport your patches to the 19.11 branch, or
>>      - Indicate that the patch should not be backported
>>
>> Please do either of the above by December the 14th 2021 (More time than
>> usual as backports get harder).
> 
> Sorry, but to meet some deadlines by test/verification I need to reduce the
> time for backports to make it into -rc1 to the 9th of December.
> 
> That still is 7 days out from now and still longer than usual.
> 
> 
>> You can find the a temporary work-in-progress branch of the coming 19.11.11
>> release at:
>>      https://github.com/cpaelzer/dpdk-stable-queue
>> It is recommended to backport on top of that to minimize further conflicts or
>> misunderstandings.
>>
>> Some notes on stable backports:
>>
>> A backport should contain a reference to the DPDK main branch commit
>> in it's commit message in the following fashion:
>>      [ upstream commit <commit's dpdk main 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 19.11] foo/bar: fix baz
>>
>> With git format-patch, this can be achieved by appending the parameter:
>>      --subject-prefix='PATCH 19.11'
>>
>> Send the backported patch to "stable at dpdk.org" but not "dev at dpdk.org".
>>
>> FYI, branch 19.11 is located at tree:
>>     https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
>>
>> ---
>>

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>> b72099be7f  David Marchand   net/virtio-user: fix init when using existing tap
This commit should not be backported.
We deliberately omitted adding the Fixes tag and Cc'ing stable at dpdk.org
so that it is not automatically backported.

Regards,
Maxime