Comment 0 for bug 1817675

[Impact]

 * After 17.11.5 being released:
   http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/announce/2019-February/000244.html
   We want to backport this stable release to the releases that have
   17.11.x which are currently Bionic and Cosmic.

 * This update includes bugfixes only following the SRU policy
   exception defined at :
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/DPDK.

 * We also consider adding a fix (that will most likely be in next
   stable) that fixes DKMS build against kernel 5.0 in preparation
   for the 5.0 based HWE kernel that will arrive in Bionic at some
   point

[Major Changes]
 * No new features added, just a bugfix release, we had no
   17.11.4 update yet so this covers both:
   https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-17.11/rel_notes/release_17_11.html#id4
   https://doc.dpdk.org/guides-17.11/rel_notes/release_17_11.html#id5

[Test Plan]

* See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/DPDK#SRU_TestVerify
  I'll run those and attach a log.
  In addition I'll ask a few peers to evaluate it as well before we
  push it to SRU.

[Regression Potential]

Upstream performs extensive testing before release, giving us a high degree of confidence in the general case. There problems are most likely to manifest in Ubuntu-specific integrations, such as in relation to the versions of dependencies available and other packaging-specific matters.

[Notes]
I already prepared the changes for the shared Debian/Ubuntu deb_dpdk project and base on that will create backports for Cosmic/Bionic in a PPA for the usual pre MRE evaluation we agreed on.