Almost simultaneously Stephen Hemminger wrote a sysctl option making it possible to easily switch the default qdisc from pfifo_fast to "something else"
And earlier in the week Jesper Bauer got the last of the atm/htb fixes in.
All of these patches are now in the net-next tree. There were a few touchups and tweaks here and there over the days following, that aren't in there yet...
Future looks so bright we gotta wear shades, or eyepatches, or something....