Format question for BlueField 22.04 patches

David Thompson davthompson at nvidia.com
Thu Sep 29 15:40:34 UTC 2022


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:02 AM
> To: David Thompson <davthompson at nvidia.com>; Dann Frazier <dfrazier at nvidia.com>;
> kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Format question for BlueField 22.04 patches
> 
> On 29.09.22 16:03, David Thompson wrote:
> > +kernel-team
> >
> > Looking for guidance on the format of BlueField 22.04 patches.
> >
> > Thanks, Dave
> >
> > *From:* David Thompson
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2022 2:38 PM
> > *To:* Dann Frazier <dfrazier at nvidia.com>
> > *Subject:* Format question for BlueField 22.04 patches
> >
> > Hi Dann,
> >
> > Any 20.04 patches sent to the Canonical kernel team included
> >
> > the following string in the Subject line:
> >
> > "[SRU][F:linux-bluefield]"
> >
> >
> > For 22.04 patches being sent, should the string instead be
> >
> > “[SRU][F:linux-nv-bluefield]” ?
> 
> For 22.04 it should be "J:" for Jammy and after the colon whatever name we ended up with. As
> long as the local info is not wrong this would be "linux-bluefield"
> still/again.
> 
> So "[SRU][J:linux-bluefield]" for 22.04 patches.
> 
> -Stefan
> 
> >
> > Regards, Dave
> >
> >

Thanks for the reply Stefan.

And if we have a BlueField patch that applies to Focal and Jammy,
we can specify "[SRU][F][J][linux-bluefield]" as the prefix, right?

- Dave



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