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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] netvsc: chimney buffer size error
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:45:17 +0100
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On 8/9/2018 6:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Fix the error handling in setting up transmit buffer.
> If setting up chimney buffer fails, then it is not connected so
> no need to send disconnect.
> 
> Allow for some unused area if full area is not used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>

subsytem is net/netvsc, so title should be:
net/netvsc: fix chimney buffer size error handling

Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Assuming you want patch to be backported.

I will update as above while merging.