On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 02:59:02PM -0400, Jim Quinlan wrote: > ... > The original patchset was and is controversial, as it is basically a > square peg that does not fit nicely into a round Linux hole. It took > 11 versions of following reviewers' suggestions until it was > accepted. And now it has been reverted, I am wondering if it will > ever be let in again or whether I should even try. The original patchset [1] may have been controversial, but that's not the issue here. The only thing we need to solve here is to post the four patches I reverted with a tiny change to one of them to avoid the regression. I don't think that should be a problem. Bjorn [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106160332.2143-1-jim2101024@xxxxxxxxx