New switch for coreutils?

[Philipp Thomas]

Prior to coreutils 8, df would do a statfs then print out info for each
individual filesystem sequentially.  This was useful for troubleshooting
network filesystems in particular, as df hangs at the individual fs that
had the issues.

Probably as a result of 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=ddf6fb8686b1ed6a26d5f1c76a642d0fb5fe7ba7
df no longer does this.  Instead, it does statfs on all filesystems before
attempting to print anything.  The result is that if there's a problem with
any filesystem, no output is printed out.  This is irritating, to the point
that some (big) customers keep the old df around just for this.

My question is, if a patch that allows doing it the old sequential way would
have a chance of being accepted.

Philipp