Hi,
Thanks for continuing his effort.
Please submit a patch series that includes his patches. Please also
merge fixes for his patches into them. This saves the effort to review
the obsolete code and keeps git bisect working.
Sorry about that - it looks like (a) my edits to the cover letter messed something up and (b) patch 1 got email-filtered somewhere along the way for having the "wrong" From: address. I've submitted v2 with most patches squashed into patch 1, whose authorship I've also changed to myself (with Co-authored-by tag for the original code) so hopefully this time around it shows up OK.
Thanks,
Phil