[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] README: clarify the input of step 3

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
---
 README | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 70f4320..920cf3c 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ The 'devtools/get-maintainer.sh' tool from the DPDK repository is used to
 compile the list of maintainers to CC for each patch. A configuration file
 needs to be set up first, see the script itself for instructions.
 
+If you use GIT_AM_PAUSE_ON_FAIL="yes" you can call 3-request-backport without
+a list and it will process patches in xx.yy.z/tmp_import/list that it does
+not find as applied in the git history from the current head.
+
+If you want to manually keep lists the format needed is multiple lines of:
+  "commit-id path-to-patch-file"
+Patch files could be created via `git format-patch -1` or similar.
+
 4-final-review
 ==============
 
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2.31.1