On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > 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