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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by lupusreal on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:30AM (#40667255)
> and the only way to avoid the associated issues is to mainline drivers, which most companies don't want to do (... don't want to invest in maintaining it etc.)

They wouldn't have to, that would be done for them, for free, if they got their code into the kernel...

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @02:57PM (#40673236)
A driver is not a static one time thing.

Once you mainline it, making improvements, supporting new devices and features become 10x slower.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by lupusreal on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:27PM (#40673559)
Nobody says the old mainlined driver must support new devices. Mainline a new driver, or don't, either way it's better than nothing.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by fooker on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:39PM (#40674450)
Yeah, better than nothing.

With a stable ABI, it would be better than everything. But we can't have it because of ideological reasons.

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