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. Andrew