We tried something like that for Alpha in the pre-2.0 days. Linus
rejected the header file changes, and we were left with a bag of kernel
patches for 2.0.x that had to be kept up so that libc could build.
It sucked. Hard.
You'd have to get Linus to buy into such a scheme, and he won't.
r~
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