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> While I agree with your more broad view of the issue, I specifically
> talked about VDR.  AFAIK Klaus has no intention of adding true
> server/client support to VDR, so for VDR users, this sounds like it
> could be a working solution without the strict limitations of
> streamdev.

So fix Klaus rather than mess up the kernel.

If you are trying to solve a VDR political problem then kernel hacks are
not the way to go. Someone who cares about it needs to fix VDR, with or
without its current maintainer.