<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 08/16/2016 10:42 AM, Greg KH wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20160816104246.GA27785@kroah.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">As long as this new code doesn't break things for users without those kernel patches, why would you object? Are you having to maintain these new features for some reason? </pre> </blockquote> No but I eventually might have to deal with the fallout from such approach. Why cant the kernel community figure this out and solve this upstream first since it's quite obvious from the threads that Tejun Heo linked to in that pull request that this is a political issue not a technical one. Surely Linus and his so called lieutenants can step in and break political status quo like that. JBG </body> </html>