[rincebrain]

I can't find any evidence they were submitted upstream at any juncture.

Moreover, since (several of) the patches seem to rip out a bunch of logic in favor of very simple logic, they would probably be contentious without broad testing and probably a runtime option to configure the behavior.

[verroq]

And uses spaces instead of tabs. Someone will need to go fix them up.

[jeffreyrogers]

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Tabs instead of spaces is the Linux kernel style.