On 12/14/2018 4:59 PM, Kevin Traynor wrote: > On 12/03/2018 08:07 AM, Zhang, Qi Z wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Li, Xiaoyun >>> Sent: Monday, December 3, 2018 3:08 PM >>> To: Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zh...@intel.com> >>> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun...@intel.com> >>> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/i40e: firmware status check >>> >>> Check the firmware status at init time. If the firmware is in recovery >>> mode, alert >>> the user to check it. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyun Li <xiaoyun...@intel.com> >> >> Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com> >> >> Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel. >> > > This was applied with a 'Cc:stable' tag, but no 'Fixes' tag.
This fixes a behavior in the driver, but not a specific code/commit, and author request this behavior change to backport. This request makes sense to me but what do you think from stable tree point of view? Are you OK with this kind of request? > What stable branches is it relevant for? I agree it is hard to define the scope of the fix without having the code that is fixed. Do you have any suggestion how to formalize the request for these kind of issues? > >> Thanks >> Qi >> >> >
