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

[Bob Woodruff]

>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.

>grant

My current thinking was to provide one patch that contained all of
the InfiniBand code that was released in a specific kernel.org release
that also contained the changes for the backport.
That way, the user would only have to apply one patch to do the backport.

Alternatively, we could take the approach of just putting a patch for 
each component that is a diff of what was released to kernel.org. In this 
case the user would first apply the kernel.org patches and then multiple
backport patches. Not sure which way will be harder to maintain going
forward.

woody