The article makes it sound like the only choices were this hack or break X, but that's not the case. It would be perfectly fine to have a "modeswitch_prohibit"

The article makes it sound like the only choices were this hack or break X, but that's not the case. It would be perfectly fine to have a "modeswitch_prohibit" property (hooked to sysfs and kconfig) which contains a list of process names to match. It would be unusual, but it would ot be an ugly hack.