That patch is just the one that adds the uevent attribute, if you back that out it'll prevent udevplug from re-sending the hotplug event, which will prevent the driver from being loaded in the first place, thus preventing the hang.
You'd get the same effect by changing the config to be =n :) -- Hang while booting https://launchpad.net/bugs/32597 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs