[dpdk-stable] Why was "drivers/crypto: fix build with -fno-common" not picked for 19.11 stable back then?

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 2021-06-28 at 09:34 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi,
> there is an old patch [1] which back then was not considered/taken
> into 19.11 series.
> This is now breaking Clang build [2].
> 
> Since you were the Author/Maintainers back then I wanted to ask if
> there was a reason to not pick it? If it should be picked now and if
> there are any special things to consider for a backport?
> 
> Chiming in/subscribing to the bug would also be appreciated.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/commit/eef9e0412a84cddf8944379ed4995314b4369370
> [2]: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733#c6

Can't remember the details about this particular one, but I think
several fixes were backported for the -fno-common issue in 19.11

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi