[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits

[Sean Hefty]

>at qlogic we now keep the backports as branches in
>our git tree and this, i find, is much easier to
>handle.  because:
>
>* viewing and navigating backport source becomes
>  _much_ easier.
>* merges are easier -- patches are much more fragile
>  than branches.
>* comparisons are easier -- checking for differences
>  between backports and between a backport and the
>  canonical source is faster and more convenient...
>* changesets are readable.  trying to decipher diffs
>  to patches is medically proven to take months, if not
>  years, off your life.

Let's add that you don't need patches to patches, and the order patches are
applied isn't determined alphabetically.

>anyway, what do you think?  is there anyway i could
>convince you to dump the backport patches and put
>all the backports in branches?  i'm willing to do the
>legwork if you see value...

I would love OFED to dump the patch directory concept.

- Sean