Felipe Alfaro Solana <lkml@xxxxxxx> said:
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I would like to comment in that the issue is not exclusively targeted
to stability, but the ability to keep up with kernel development. For
example, it was pretty common for older versions of VMWare and NVidia
driver to break up whenever a new kernel version was released.
That is the price for closed-source drivers.
I think it's a PITA for developers to rework some of the closed-source
code to adopt the new changes in the Linux kernel.
Open up the code. Most of the changes will then be done as a matter of
course by others.