diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 099066031b8e..001ec9f6de3a 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
 	needs to use devctl to re-enable the device, and reprobe it (or set
 	the sysctl/tunable hw.bus.disable_failed_devices=false).
 
+	NOTE: This was reverted 20221205 due to unexpected compatibility issues
+
 20221122:
 	pf no longer accepts 'scrub fragment crop' or 'scrub fragment drop-ovl'.
 	These configurations are no longer automatically reinterpreted as
diff --git a/sys/kern/subr_bus.c b/sys/kern/subr_bus.c
index 6a5ec4efc38d..b9615b033007 100644
--- a/sys/kern/subr_bus.c
+++ b/sys/kern/subr_bus.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ SYSCTL_NODE(_hw, OID_AUTO, bus, CTLFLAG_RW | CTLFLAG_MPSAFE, NULL,
 SYSCTL_ROOT_NODE(OID_AUTO, dev, CTLFLAG_RW | CTLFLAG_MPSAFE, NULL,
     NULL);
 
-static bool disable_failed_devs = true;
+static bool disable_failed_devs = false;
 SYSCTL_BOOL(_hw_bus, OID_AUTO, disable_failed_devices, CTLFLAG_RWTUN, &disable_failed_devs,
     0, "Do not retry attaching devices that return an error from DEVICE_ATTACH the first time");