I have not checked the patch, and I am not a MariaDB Dev, but ...

...I think the rule should be bended here for the following reason:


Jean-François Gagné

On 2015-04-22 13:58, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
Daniel Black <daniel.black@openquery.com> writes:

I'm requesting a backport of MDEV-7802 https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/30/files to 10.0
I don't mind putting the code in 10.0.

However, normally we do not introduce new features (in this case: three new
status variables) in stable versions. So I wanted to have someone else say
they think this rule should be bent, before doing it ...

 - Kristian.