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 I'd be more than happy to change this to a kernel config
option, experimental and default off for those who would not want it.

We never add pieces of code which are marked experimental and
intended to be marked that way forever, that's nonsense.

Completely not my intention, I did not ever intend to have something
marked experimental forever, and I'm not sure where you're drawing
that inference from.
 

What you want is your little special kernel hack in the upstream
tree, and that's now how we handle such things, sorry.

No, I saw what I thought was a lack of a feature that is commonplace 
on many other platforms, and thought I'd give it a shot to see if 
I could add it myself.  The NAKs are apparently overwhelming on this
issue, so I'll stop beating a dead horse and move on.  Thanks for the 
input.