> I have absolutely no idea of even what patch you are talking about...

I have attached the patch.

> I want to have a
> totally overriding reason for specific patches (and they'd better be small
> to be even considered), and I'm not going to bother even answering
> "discussion" as this has been for the last week.

The patch is small.  It's documented.  It's been tested.
It's needed for hotplugging to work.  That's all.