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On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:56:21 -0700 "Zach O'Keefe" <zokeefe@google.com> wrote:

> >From this back/forth with David/Matthew, seems like we're OK saying,
> "this was a mistake", and that we can take the patch (need some form
> of Ack or Reviewed-by from them first, to confirm)

Yup.  And please let's update the changelog to reflect the details
which have been discussed thus far.

If the change *makes sense* for the current kernel then let's proceed,
regardless of the broken driver issue.

But adding a cc:stable would require extra argumentation, which I will
be interested to read ;)