[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] Don't require create_ah and modify_port provider methods

[Steve Wise]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:23 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Steve> I was thinking changes that aren't dependent on the iwarp
>     Steve> code itself should be pulled in when ready and agreed-upon
>     Steve> by the group.  This modify_port/process_mad change is such
>     Steve> a change.  No?
> 
> The reason I don't like doing that is that it makes the svn trunk
> diverge from the upstream kernel and makes my life harder, because
> changes that do have to go upstream are harder to pull out of svn.
> 

But why wouldn't this change go upstream?  Excuse my ignorance...