• flashgnash@lemm.ee
    521·
    23 days ago

    This seems like a bad idea… What about people using hardware that needs those

    • Evilschnuff@feddit.orgEnglish
      30·
      23 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·
        23 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·
          23 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
          201·
          23 days ago

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