And normally that would have happened already, but I was on vacation for
a few weeks and am still catching up on patches.  Stuff like code
cleanup for staging is at the bottom of my list at the moment, as it's
not essencial to get merged at the moment, only in time for the next
release cycle.

Sure, although this is not a cleanup patch. It's the UIO hotplug patch
I bought to your attention a couple of weeks back.

I'll wait for review comments on it once you and others get around to
reviewing it.

Thanks and a Happy new year to all!

Regards,
-mandeep