Does that mean this patch can't be merged until we've figured a way out by
changing `define-minor-mode` to introduce a new `buffer-minor-modes` buffer
local variable?

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Noam Postavsky <
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> (I see describe-mode only takes minor modes which have function and
> >> variable using the same symbol)
> >
> > That happens automagically if one uses define-minor-mode, right?
>
> Except if you use its :variable option.
>