I received a reply from Greg KH: "I'm traveling at the moment, and can't see the launchpad bug, but glad to hear that it fixes the issue for you. Hopefully someone forwards the patch to me, in a format that I can apply it in, so that it gets added to the main kernel tree :)"
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