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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> > Because you only have your driver to maintain.
> 
> no, i have to maintain quite a few of the
> ofed backport branches as well for our release.
> if i started getting pull requests from people
> with changes to 15 backport branches in one go,
> i'd probably want to script it...

Yea. Happens all the time here: when component maintainer
makes a change, it will typically affect all backports or none.

> i have found that drawing a DAG with graphviz has
> been a big help in making sure that i organize the
> branches correctly...

Ugh .. *that* sounds complicated.
Looks like it's much simpler with current setup.

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