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07.02.2022 11:43, Ulf Hansson пишет:
>> In general, such changes usually are deferred from being upstreamed
>> until there is a real user, otherwise there is a risk of cluttering the
>> code with unused features. Do you have a time estimation in regards to
>> when STMicro may start to benefit from this change?
> The STMicro folkz are working on it right now, but I can't give you
> any estimates for their work.
> 
> Moreover, I think the important point in this regard, is that the
> $subject patch doesn't really hurt anything else, so then what's the
> point of holding this back?

If that work will never pan out, will you remove the unused code?