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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by young_unixer on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:45AM (#26600467)
Ironically, they care a lot about stability towards user space interfaces, to the point that bugs become features if someone depends on them, but they don't care about driver interfaces being stable.
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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by kevincox on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:19AM (#26601785)
This seems like a win-win. The kernel developers are free to refactor as they need to keep the quality and velocity high and companies are incentivized to upstream patches including making drivers in-kernel.
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