[meta-intel] [master & jethro][PATCH 0/2] Added support for dpdk v2.2.0

[Ong, Boon Leong]

>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Wold, Saul
>> > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 3:06 AM
>> > To: Gupta, Rahul KumarXX <rahul.kumarxx.gupta at intel.com>; meta-
>> > intel at yoctoproject.org
>> > Cc: Wu, Chia Chuan <chia.chuan.wu at intel.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [meta-intel] [master & jethro][PATCH 0/2] Added support
>> > for dpdk v2.2.0
>> >
>> > On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 00:01 +0800, Rahul Kumar Gupta wrote:
>> > > Dear Maintainer(s),
>> > >
>> > > These two patches introduces the recipe to build dpdk v2.2.0.
>> > >
>> > Is there any reason we can not remove the older versions of DPDK
>> > from master  (and possibly jethro)?
>> >
>> > Are the older versions required to be kept?
>>
>> I will send out a separate patch to remove the older versions from
>> master and Jethro.
>>
>It really should be part of the same patch, as a "git mv" to preserve as much of
>the git history of the original recipe as possible, at least that is the practice in OE-
>Core.

Chia Chuan et. al.
I suggest that you look into having dpdk_git.bb and a dpdk_<version>.bb.
That will benefit the community. Ya, older dpdk on master and potentially Jethro
can be removed since they may not be needed for comms product line.

Cheers....