--- a/doc/DUART28-boot-control	Sun Dec 06 09:50:28 2020 +0000
+++ b/doc/DUART28-boot-control	Tue Feb 02 05:16:01 2021 +0000
@@ -62,18 +62,15 @@
 
 The first version of our DUART28C support patch was submitted to ftdi_sio
 maintainer Johan Hovold in 2020-09.  Minor refinements were made in late 2020-09
-into early 2020-10, then nothing happened until the end of 2020-11.  As our
-fc-host-tools-r14 release is being prepared in early 2020-12, the latest from
-Johan is that he is not interested in merging our DUART28C support patch by
-itself, but he does have a generalized solution which would be equally
-acceptable to FreeCalypso because it still does what we need.  The latest status
-from Johan as of fc-host-tools-r14 release time is this proposed patch series:
+into early 2020-10, but then after dragging for several more months, the
+maintainers essentially rejected the patch on ideological grounds, rather than
+any code quality issues:
 
 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/X8iuCXYhOBVMGvXv@localhost/T/
 
-However, the comments in that thread indicate that the maintainers seem intent
-on delaying this integration until 5.12 merge window if not even later, thus we
-are still months away from any hope of resolution.
+For the next several decades until these maintainers retire of old age and get
+replaced by someone more reasonable and cooperative, our only available solution
+is to apply the necessary patch locally on our own systems.
 
 For those FreeCalypso DUART28 users who are like the Mother, desiring to use
 the boot control feature now without waiting indefinitely for Linux kernel