From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com>
Cc: Jeroen de Borst <jeroendb@google.com>,
Rushil Gupta <rushilg@google.com>,
Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun.li@intel.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, stable@dpdk.org,
Praveen Kaligineedi <pkaligineedi@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net/gve: allocate RX QPL pages using malloc
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 14:14:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250109141406.29f8119b@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALuQH+WkxmXH4-SSeRowB_y6fwajom2tpiO2HH5iG5uVfzFqwQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 12:05:43 -0800
Joshua Washington <joshwash@google.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wish for this fix to be backported to stable release 22.11 and 23.11
> for DPDK. However, the patch as it is does not apply cleanly to either
> release. What is the recommended way to include this patch in older
> releases of DPDK? Should I create separate stable backport patches
> that apply cleanly to each of the stable releases? Or will this issue
> be resolved once stable maintainers attempt to apply the patch on
> older releases?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
1. You must wait until it accepted in to main branch for an upcoming release.
2. Make sure it you add Fixes tag and Cc stable@dpdk.org
The stable maintainers pick it up from there.
3. If patch does not apply cleanly, they send out a "help with backporting" mail
before release with instructions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-09 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-18 23:46 [PATCH] net/gve: Allocate qpl pages using malloc if memzone allocation fails Joshua Washington
2024-12-19 3:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-19 20:53 ` Praveen Kaligineedi
2024-12-19 22:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-20 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-12-23 20:16 ` [PATCH v2] " Joshua Washington
2025-01-07 19:02 ` [PATCH v3] net/gve: allocate RX QPL pages using malloc Joshua Washington
2025-01-09 19:46 ` [PATCH v4] " Joshua Washington
2025-01-09 20:05 ` Joshua Washington
2025-01-09 22:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2025-01-30 18:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
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