I don't understand your comment. Can you clarify what do you mean with it?
If you ask me I'd never use this position, so I can't comment on the usefulness of the feature.
There was a patch, the author reminded me, I've looked at it and I've committed it.
Your patch has not been rejected, so if you've reminded us we could have applied it first.
Now if your patch differs to the one applied in behaviour you'll need to provide a configuration option or negotiate with the patch author that your behaviour is better and provide a patch to change the behaviour.