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.

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  brltty claiming cp210x devices on 22.04

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