Post #1890208
2026-04-25 10:35 UTC
@klausman nobody asked "to subscribe to the firehose that is LKML", so sorry, that is a strawman.
"quite an uphill battle": you have to make your case, yes -- and it can be an uphill battle occasionally *if* that can cause huge security problems for the kernel as a whole, as that it become a judgement call. But several removals were reverted over time, so from my point of view "quite an uphill battle" does not describe the situations adequately.
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@klausman@mas.to 2026-04-25 12:01
@kernellogger My point about the firehose was that even when testing every .0, it would be the only way for people who use these drivers to chime in before the removal of a driver, and thus potentially avoiding a) work+churn and b) now having an arbitrary series of kernels that won't work for them. IWBNI there was an "early warning system" for driver removals --- though that may invite bike shedding. I would also argue that it's harder to get a driver back than to not have it removed.