I think it's fair to say the hardware changed, the deployment strategy changed and the patches were no longer relevant, so we stopped applying them.
When I showed up, there were 100+ patches on top of a 2009 kernel tree. I reduced the size to about 10 or so critical patches, rebased them at a 6 months cadence over 2-3 years. Upstreamed a few.
Didn't go around saying those old patches were bad ideas and I got rid of them. How you say it matters.
People got promoted for continuous deployment
https://engineering.fb.com/2017/08/31/web/rapid-release-at-m...
I think it's fair to say the hardware changed, the deployment strategy changed and the patches were no longer relevant, so we stopped applying them.
When I showed up, there were 100+ patches on top of a 2009 kernel tree. I reduced the size to about 10 or so critical patches, rebased them at a 6 months cadence over 2-3 years. Upstreamed a few.
Didn't go around saying those old patches were bad ideas and I got rid of them. How you say it matters.