20.11.6 patches review and test

[Xueming(Steven) Li]

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> From: Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang at intel.com>
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> Subject: RE: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2022 5:17 PM
> > To: stable at dpdk.org
> > Cc: xuemingl at nvidia.com; dev at dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe
> > <Abhishek.Marathe at microsoft.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com>;
> > Walker, Benjamin <benjamin.walker at intel.com>; David Christensen
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> > Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng at intel.com>; Chen, Zhaoyan
> > <zhaoyan.chen at intel.com>
> > Subject: 20.11.6 patches review and test
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 20.11.6.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release is August 29th.
> >
> > 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=v20.11.6-rc1
> >
> > These patches are located at branch 20.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com>
> >
> > ---
> Hi Xueming,
> 
> We found one kni build bug https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1066, which will block build when kmods=True.
> And this is a fix https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=327ef506599 can be applied on LTS20.11 and verified passed.
> So could you pls merge it into LTS20.11? Thanks~

Patch merged and pushed.  Thanks for identifying the problem!

> 
> Best regards,
> Yu Jiang