Comment 33 for bug 885989

Confirmed locally that the patch fixes the white-screen-of-death problem on 12.10/quantal.

Is the upstream approval absolutely required here? The objection ("seems a bit simple...") is rather vague, and Alberts above has essentially shown that it is in fact one per screen anyway, making the objection even more dubious.

Given that it impacts many users, and has been confimed as a workable fix many times independently, I don't see why it isn't simply added to the build and integrated locally, independent of the aged criticism from two years ago that blocked the patch. That would seem to be the pragmatic approach here.