-* A branch update must not require an ath9k_htc driver update to function. It may go hand-in-hand with some vendor patches to ath9k_htc to fix some particular issue, but the firmware must still function on the latest version of ath9k_htc which is paired with the branch version.
+* A branch update must not require an ath9k_htc driver update to function. It may go hand-in-hand with some vendor patches to ath9k_htc to fix some particular issue, but the firmware must still function on the latest version of ath9k_htc which is paired with the branch version;
+* Any fixes to a branch must first be applied and debugged in master before backported.
+* .. ie, features/fixes must not go into a branch first.