Ok, after some arguments about whether it is good behaviour to send a patch as 
attachment to the list. Here it is again as attachment.

> > > > > > Here is now an improved version of the patch. It's against
> > > > > > 2.4.21.
> > > > >
> > > > > it is line-break-broken.
> > > >
> > > > Here it is as attachment
> > >
> > > Thank you. I didn't see lkml in the recipients, assume you post the
> > > patch there separately?
> >
> > Documentation/SubmittingPatches states:
> >
> > 6) No MIME, no links, no compression, no attachments.  Just plain text.
>
> it is more guidline than a rule.