Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day...
It just seems to me that the original post was a stab at gentoo kernel development rather than any hope of starting any constructive discussion...
But may be there is a possibility to create ebuild, which will download the patch from http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/ , and then patch the kernel? I think this ebuild can be GPL'ed, but then user can decide does he want this bad kernel headers and other code be changed or not.
Because the patch isn't GPL it means we can't include it in our tree without changing the licensing of our kernel (I don't think this would go down well). It's licensing is ok on its own, but what you suggest in an ebuild isn't practical, and would create lots of issues due to variation between kernel versions. If the author could recode it as a kernel module then that would be a start.
Also, this does not address points 2 and 3 in my last post, which still prevent us from including this.
Daniel
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