On unpatched 2.6.5-alt1: the tests for the features of patches 1, 2 failed;
tests for the features of patch 3 (edit mode) in linux console 
are OK (xterm -- not tested); so there is no need in this patch in 2.6
(actually almost the same patch has been accepted for mainstream 2.6.5).

Results on patched kernel:

Patch 1: tests OK.
Patch 2: tests OK.
