1: Judicious use of the --exclude-from directive will keep your patch
virgin vs third party stuff you may have incorporated to your source
tree.
Right now your filesystem patch is fundamentally incompatible with
things like Alan Cox's jumbo patches because of this.
Also your inclusion of non-related code may interfere with application
of other single patches people may be applying.
2: Why submit these to Linus? The guy is snowed under and has more
pressing priorities right now in his life than including patches to
stable code (other than bugfixes).
You're really better off cleaning up your patches and feeding them to
Alan Cox. There's a large pool of ac-testers out there, your code will
get tested and debugged faster this way and you'll end up in the
mainstream kernel tree that much more quickly.
(incidentally, Linus' priorities are why 2.4.* releases are such a
pig right now. The ac trees are more stable in my experience.)
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