[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test - V2

[Kevin Traynor]

On 10/06/2021 11:29, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 10/06/2021 11:05, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 11:05 AM Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Christian,
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2021 11:49 AM
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>>>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test - V2
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 7:52 AM Christian Ehrhardt
>>>> <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is version 2 of the list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.9.
>>>>> Thanks to plenty of helpful developers we've collected a few more
>>>>> backports by now and sorted out a few rare compile time issues that were
>>>> found with -rc1.
>>>>>
>>>>> The planned date for the final release of 19.11.9 is now 18th of June.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report
>>>>> any issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release
>>>>> the fixes and reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>>>>>
>>>>> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>>>>>
>>>>>     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.9-rc2
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately there were further build issues with new suse kernels.
>>>> The fix for some of them, now breaks others :-/ The final fix didn't finalize
>>>> yet, but as a TL;DR it means there will be a -rc3 down the road.
>>>>
>>>> I beg your pardon for the extra work.
>>>> If you are testing non-suse and are already deep into the tests you likely can
>>>> continue that.
>>>> If you didn't start your tests yet then I'd recommend holding back until -rc3
>>>> exists.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I see some build failures with gcc 11. Do we expect this release to support it?
>>
>> I have added all that were targeted at stable at dpdk, but I remember
>> that Kevin mentioned a few missing in 20.11.x due to the submissions
>> missing to go to stable at dpdk.
>> The same could be the case here.
>> @Kevin could you have a look at 19.11 and if there are some missing
>> point me to the commits to pick up?
>>
>> @Ali - if you have a particular bug signature that might help to
>> identify the right patch.
>>
> 
> They will all note 'GCC' (or gcc) in the commit msg. Most will have an
> example of the 'warning' they resolved too. There was also bugzillas
> opened for them all i think, which note the fixing commit. So if you
> find any issues when building, you could cross-reference between warning
> in commit/warning in Bz and fixing commit. Of course there may be some
> new issues pop up in older code that was later changed/replaced in main.
> 
> There was also 2 commits needed for clang 12 support (my bad for missing
> tags on these).

> 5ac070cfed test/cmdline: silence clang 12 warning
^ just sent backport of this with upstream commit and correct tag
http://inbox.dpdk.org/stable/20210610110028.230803-1-ktraynor@redhat.com/T/#u

> 414245bbc5 test/cmdline: fix inputs array
^ this one was already merged on 19.11 and 20.11 branches

> 
>>> I also see some doxygen errors with version 1.9.1 in Fedora Rawhide. Will open a Bugzilla ticket.
>>
>> Rawhide builds of 19.11.x were broken for a while now, but yeah filing
>> the bug surely is the right path.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ali
>>
>>
>>
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