Hi All,
This patch set continues from the partially applied patch set submitted on December 07 and applied on January 24th. Alas, I had practically rewritten the entire series after the comments regarding split patches in the original submission (Rule #0 of Software Development - you will always find a better, more logical and more elegant implementation when you rewrite the functionality you just wrote)
Sorry it has taken so long to get this revised patch set out, but I have had a lot of other commitments and this is truly a personal endeavor, so I have to meek out what time I can when I can.
I must send a BIG thank you to Jean-Christophe for pointing me in the direction of stgit - this has been a most invaluable tool, especially when it came to merging my 'better' implementation (see Rule #0) with what had already been applied.
And a BIG thanks as well to Wolfgang for applying what he could, even though it was a bit of a mess - I think I owe you a full case of beer by now
As I said, this patch set follows on towards completion of the previous path set ending at commit a5989c42ae5e295f274a795c426c47819bbdbfda
I still have all these patches sitting in stgit, so any modifications and resubmission should be much easier now
Regards,
Graeme