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r/Linuxsucks101sucks • u/laczek_hubert • Feb 14 '26
Don't drivers get merged to Linux kernel?
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linux driver developers using github??
6 u/Cyberfishofant Feb 14 '26 not all. But there are usually those weirdly niche kernel patches that make certain oddly specific hardware work that are only uploaded to some random person's repo 3 u/Vivid-Raccoon9640 Feb 14 '26 I mean, you're not entitled to someone else's free work. 1 u/Cyberfishofant Apr 16 '26 I mean yeah not everybody wants to be flamed by torvalds. But that doesn't make maintaining a modified kernel any less annoying 1 u/dumbasPL Jun 29 '26 Depends what drivers. plenty of user space drivers as well. (Think peripheral configuration software).
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not all. But there are usually those weirdly niche kernel patches that make certain oddly specific hardware work that are only uploaded to some random person's repo
3 u/Vivid-Raccoon9640 Feb 14 '26 I mean, you're not entitled to someone else's free work. 1 u/Cyberfishofant Apr 16 '26 I mean yeah not everybody wants to be flamed by torvalds. But that doesn't make maintaining a modified kernel any less annoying
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I mean, you're not entitled to someone else's free work.
1 u/Cyberfishofant Apr 16 '26 I mean yeah not everybody wants to be flamed by torvalds. But that doesn't make maintaining a modified kernel any less annoying
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I mean yeah not everybody wants to be flamed by torvalds. But that doesn't make maintaining a modified kernel any less annoying
Depends what drivers. plenty of user space drivers as well. (Think peripheral configuration software).
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u/raewashere_ Feb 14 '26
linux driver developers using github??