• Evilschnuff@feddit.orgEnglish
    30·
    22 days ago

    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.“

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      120·
      22 days ago

      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

      • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
        32·
        22 days ago

        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.

      • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
        211·
        22 days ago

        You’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.