Comment 22 for bug 1958224

I understand the importance of fixing this conflict, and I agree it's bad behavior on the part of the hardware manufacturer that retail devices were shipped using these generic USB IDs, but the consequence of the proposed SRU - disabling the use of brltty on the USB ids in question - is that a blind user who uses one of these devices, who has successfully installed Ubuntu and has a working system, will on the installation of this SRU have their only accessible tty device rendered inoperable.

That represents a CRITICAL regression for the users in question. It effectively bricks their machine and requires the user to rely on a sighted person (who is also Ubuntu-knowledgeable) to get it working again.

So I am rejecting this SRU. It's unfortunate that this wasn't caught before release, but now that support for this hardware is present in the release, we can't be bricking blind users' systems to enable other cp210x devices. We'll need to find some other path forward.