On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:50:27 +0200 Nicolas Ferre [off-list ref] wrote:

The review of this patch series was in my TODO list for some time...

Today, I magically took time to review it ;-)
The patch series is good and I (even if it is too late) here is my:

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <redacted>

I do not know if the series can be stacked for inclusion in 3.10-rc but 
the resolution of this bug can help a lot (as Douglas is saying in 
subsequent email...).

We can do that, but looking through the discussion and changelogs I
can't seem to find a usable description of what impact the bug (and its
fix) have upon end-users.

A nicely packaged description of that impact would help grease the
wheels, please.