Hi,

I have developed (or discovered ;)) how to split a file in a way that
both old and new are nice in terms of git-blame

https://github.com/pkitszel/linux/commits/virtchnl-split/

The purpose of RFC is to ask if anyone is in strong disagreement with me

There is more commits needed to have it nice, so it forms a git-log vs
git-blame tradeoff, but (after the brief moment that this is on the top)
we spend orders of magnitude more time looking at the blame output (and
commit messages linked from that) - so I find it much better to see
actual logic changes instead of "move xx to yy" stuff (typical for
"squashed/single-commit splits").

Cherry-picks/rebases work the same with this method as with simple
"squashed/single-commit" approach (literally all commits squashed into
one (to have better git-log, but shitty git-blame output).

Rationale for the split itself is, as usual, "file is big and we want to
extend it".

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