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minus-squareEvilschnuff@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·12 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-up1arrow-down20·12 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-up32·12 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-squareChaotic Entropy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-212 days agoI reserve the right to use my copy of “Mario is Missing!” from 1993.
minus-squareSMillerNL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·12 days agoYou’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.
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.
I reserve the right to use my copy of “Mario is Missing!” from 1993.
You’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.
The truth hurts.