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> I know, it's patch 15 in your series ;) And I'm aware that usually new
> core functionality is acceptable only if it comes together with a user,
> to avoid having billions of orphaned good ideas in the code.
> I focused on the core here to not get lost in all the new stuff, and to
> provide Maxime with some direction for adjusting his series.

I'm just trying to avoid Maxime reimplementing something when we
already have a patch:

https://github.com/lunn/linux/commit/07e3fa8f183f05a09d969a9378534da35238eeb9

Maxime, feel free to cherry-pick this into your series.

	Andrew