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I think there is something more primal going on too. Vendors might at some time chose to say "freeze" and now we will just deliver this same binary blob, or at
by adrianratnapala 11y ago
I think there is something more primal going on too.
Vendors might at some time chose to say "freeze" and now we will just deliver this same binary blob, or at best generate new binary blobs from an ancient source stack we have under version control.
Making changes means, at best, going through an expensive testing procedure. At worst, there is no such procedure and all change is an anethema.
So they only make changes when they have to, and as the cost of staying obsolete increases, so does the cost of becoming up to date.
- xyzzy_plugh 11y agoI tend to agree, but remember that for many vendors providing code that doesn't run/isn't tested on some LTS kernel means no one will use it. Or, you'll incorporate the vendor delivering support as part of the deal. Many times I've spent late nights babysitting an employee from $VENDOR debugging/fixing/rewriting their driver to play nice with our stack.