> I can see it very slowly starting to unravel and quality issues starting to sneak in I know what you mean here, and I agree with you 100%. That being said,

> I can see it very slowly starting to unravel and quality issues starting to sneak in I know what you mean here, and I agree with you 100%. That being said, I can't help but chuckle because if you've ever looked at a vendor's GPL source code for the kernel (Android phone, NAS/router) you know it's the SoCs vendor's old SDK (lots of bodge) with the ODMs additional bodges for their product customizations. Yes, I am VERY glad that the mainline kernel has Linus and his nose for BS. But just go look at the vendor forks if you want to see some even worse shit than these patches! Allwinner's GPL is basically garbage. You can find quality rants from tkaiser (Armbian) about this. MediaTek doesn't even release theirs! Yes, this IS a GPL violation, and no they don't seem to care. At least Amlogic seems to have woken up and realized an active kernel development community is an asset for them.