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Since this change should be good to backport to all > > > > currently supported LTS releases, the orignal addition of the driver > > > > works fine as a commit being fixed. > > > > > > No opinion on the backporting aspect. > > > At least the driver looks stable for a while, so the patch lgtm. > > > > > Given that the driver has been around since 2021 and the oldest supported > > LTS is 23.11, I felt it worthwhile to backport. However, if LTS > > maintainers want to avoid this patch, I'm not too concerned :-) > > We're saying the main branch is non-experimental _now_ but it has diverged > from what is in LTS branches e.g. [0] > > I think it would be better not to backport this patch to LTS as the driver > was released as experimental in those releases and the docs reflect that. > > That it is changing in main is positive :-) but it doesn't seem worth > evaluating each LTS branch and backports (and any other code context) to say > if could now say that about the LTS branch too and retro-fitting the docs. > Sure, no problem.