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p.s. The general rule is to not mix unrelated changes in a single patch, thus it minimizes the work the people testing the patch have to do...
Morten: See the link in the first post and post any comments there as this will make it less random and easier if someone searches for this problem...
No, I doubt that forcing the maximizing is the right thing to do, but you should provide a patch there, where the context is correct.