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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] ANNOUNCE ofed backports for 2.6.22 kernel bits
> 
> >But the proposal here was to have a bush of branches, all of which
> >need to be merged at the same time. It's possible that some
> >would merge and some would fail, leaving me in an inconsistent state,
> >and no easy way to get back to where I started.
> 
> A fix could be applied to some kernels, but not others.  In fact, if a 
> patch works for kernel X & Y, but has a conflict with kernel Z, then 
> different patches are needed anyway.  I don't see the requirement to 
> merge everything or even apply a fix to all kernels at the same time.

This is typically component maintainer's job, not integrator's.
As an integrator, I want to pull but if the merge fails,
reset everything back to the original state, and let the maintainer know.

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