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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> I'll happily take some of the cleanup and prep patches if people want
> those to go in separately.

Actually, perhaps we should not strive to do that.

Because particularly if we expect that this will want to be
back-ported into at least 4.14, maybe the right thing to do is to make
_that_ as easy as possible, and make the whole series be based on 4.14
(so that back-porting is literally just "merge the branch").

If I start taking this piece-meal, it is just going to make the
back-porting messier.

              Linus