Augment auto-discovered projects with an "extra linked projects" list

Today, there exists the setting in VS Code called rust-analyzer.linkedProjects which allows the user to manually define the paths to their workspace projects, but doing so opts you out of project auto-discovery.

In my workspace, I have many projects which are all members of the same cargo workspace, and the list is in regular flux, so it's very nice to rely on the auto-discovery feature, however I also have one or two projects which can't be members of the same cargo workspace and as such they are not auto-discovered by Rust Analyzer.

It would be great if there were a way to tell Rust Analyzer about these couple of analyzable projects without having to opt out of auto-discovery. It seems unlikely that the existing setting mentioned above could be used for this purpose since that would probably be a breaking change, but would it be possible to add a second setting such as rust-analyzer.extraLinkedProjects which is an array of project references just like linkedProjects but whose entries are merged with those found by auto-discovery rather than replacing the auto-discovery process?

Thank you for your consideration, cheers!

Start by tracing the existing rust-analyzer.linkedProjects configuration and the auto-discovery entry point. Add a separate extraLinkedProjects setting whose project references are merged with auto-discovered projects, while preserving the existing setting's behavior; verify that both manually added and discovered projects are analyzed together.