Have you asked the original author about this? There has to be some reason the patch was not accepted, right? Try asking them what happened
No, because the email address recorded in the patch is no longer valid.
to see if they remember. I can't remember what happened with a specific patch yesterday, I deal with too many patches to be able to remember anything, but usually the author has a bit better recollection.
I could not find any NACK or any sort of comment on the original patch submission. The only email I saw related to these patches was that it didn't apply cleanly on the previous patch-set (also submitted by the same author, and merged in by you). You had mentioned thta since the patch didn't apply cleanly, you had deleted the patch-set and had asked for it to be re-submitted (which the original author did).
It's ok to submit other people's patches, but it's a nice idea to ask them about it before doing so.
I was hoping that Eric Biederman might still be there on LKML and that he might jump in once I post the patches! :) I'll add a 'Tested-by' to each of the commits and submit the patch-set. Thanks, -mandeep
good luck,
greg k-h