It's not just the backporting that's easier with fewer patches. Keep in mind that we're going to be distributing advance copies of these to downstream stakeholders (like cloud operators and the private linux-distros mailing list) as file attachments in E-mail, so the more patches those recipients need to juggle and worry about sequencing the greater the risk something goes wrong for them.
It's not just the backporting that's easier with fewer patches. Keep in mind that we're going to be distributing advance copies of these to downstream stakeholders (like cloud operators and the private linux-distros mailing list) as file attachments in E-mail, so the more patches those recipients need to juggle and worry about sequencing the greater the risk something goes wrong for them.