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It's hacky, but it's simple, > and it never got applied because we had smarter suggestions. But the > smarter suggestions never ended up being applied either, so.. Yeah, IMHO the best would be to apply your patch[1], c/c stable up to 4.9. Nothing prevents applying a better/smarter solution once we have it. From my side, I can keep testing whatever smart suggestions people propose. Yet, better to have one fix on our hand than two fixes flying around. [1] e. g. https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/commit/?h=v4.15%2bmedia%2bdwc2&id=ccf833fd4a5b99c3d3cf2c09c065670f74a230a7 Regards, Mauro