This project is possibly a better choice to base private patches on: <a href="http://github.com/mfoemmel/erlang-otp/tree/master" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/mfoemmel/erlang-otp/tree/master</a>
Have you sent this to the erlang list? I just checked for both yrashk and alterline, and I'm not getting any threads for those queries. The OTP team is generally really good about merging bugfixes, from what I've seen on the list.