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minus-squareflashgnash@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·3 days agoThis seems like a bad idea… What about people using hardware that needs those
minus-squareEvilschnuff@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoThis is from the article: „If there are any genuine users of these drivers remaining that are still running an upstream kernel, the drivers can always be reverted / merged back but otherwise they are gone without anyone maintaining them.“
minus-squareflashgnash@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoAll well and good for people who know how to do that A lot of users won’t even know what a kernel is let alone why their printer has stopped working or that they need to raise a GitHub issue
minus-squareubergeek@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThese aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing. Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year. Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoYou’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.
This seems like a bad idea… What about people using hardware that needs those
This is from the article: „If there are any genuine users of these drivers remaining that are still running an upstream kernel, the drivers can always be reverted / merged back but otherwise they are gone without anyone maintaining them.“
All well and good for people who know how to do that
A lot of users won’t even know what a kernel is let alone why their printer has stopped working or that they need to raise a GitHub issue
These aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing.
Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.
Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
You’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.