[ofa-general] RFC: modify upstream code to make backporting easier

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:28:51AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> Upstream maintainers, can you pls comment ASAP on whether such
> approach would be acceptable e.g. for 2.6.24?  If I could get rid of
> backport patches, it might make sense to start thinking about
> converting fixes patches to git commits, post 1.3, as well.

FWIW, I've seen arguments about this for other drivers over the years
and the Kernel folks have pretty much always said that wrappers like
this in the mainline to support backporting are not desired..

Jason