netdev - Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:04:16 -0400
From:   Jarod Wilson <jarod@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] bonding driver terminology change proposal

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:26 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi Jarod
>
> Do you have this change scripted? Could you apply the script to v5.4
> and then cherry-pick the 8 bonding fixes that exist in v5.4.51. How
> many result in conflicts?
>
> Could you do the same with v4.19...v4.19.132, which has 20 fixes.
>
> This will give us an idea of the maintenance overhead such a change is
> going to cause, and how good git is at figuring out this sort of
> thing.

Okay, I have some fugly bash scripts that use sed to do the majority
of the work here, save some manual bits done to add duplicate
interfaces w/new names and some aliases, and everything is compiling
and functions in a basic smoke test here.

Summary on the 5.4 git cherry-pick conflict resolution after applying
changes: not that good. 7 of the 8 bonding fixes in the 5.4 stable
branch required fixing when straight cherry-picking. Dumping the
patches, running a sed script over them, and then git am'ing them
works pretty well though. I didn't try 4.19 (yet?), I assume it'll
just be more of the same.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@...hat.com