Comment 4 for bug 245118

I think that Nikon most probably will not fix the USB implementation soon, because it works excellently with their windows drivers. There is no reason for Nikon to fix it. "While it works, don't touch it".

Is it possible to make the kernel automatically detect if this known bug is fixed or not?

Could such strategy of automatic bugfix applicability testing is reasonable?
Let the software itself check when Nikon and others fix their bugs, why should people think of it any more!