[openib-general] [ANNOUNCE][PATCH] Backport patch for 2.6.9 kernel

[Grant Grundler]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:57:47PM -0700, Woodruff, Robert J wrote:
> Perhaps we should make a subdirectory for 
> gen2/src/linux-kernel/patches/2.6.9,

I don't think that's needed since the file name should make that obvious
and we won't have that many seperate 2.6.9 patches.

> since I suspect that we will have additional backport patches
> for 2.6.9 going forward, i.e., when the user-mode and SDP support is
> complete and released to kernel.org someone may want a packport to 2.6.9.

Just name new chunks appropriately or update the existing ones.
e.g. linux-2.6.9-uverbs.diff could be the uverbs patch for 2.6.9 support.
Ditto for SDP.
Maybe add an enumerator so that one apply patches that would collide
in some same files without having to physically glob the patches together.

BTW, patches can contain the same text that we post to the mailing
list to document the contents. The existing linux-2.6.11-sinai.diff
is a good example.

grant