That CI pipeline would need to be placed not at Red Hat but at their big customers and their hardware vendors. To RH's benefit, those tend to suck at that and p

That CI pipeline would need to be placed not at Red Hat but at their big customers and their hardware vendors. To RH's benefit, those tend to suck at that and prefer to pay big dollars over having to keep up with kernel development or getting rid of their crappy out-of-tree drivers. If you have the appropriate CI pipelines as well as the kind of developers capable of directly consuming the upstream community outputs, by all means, do that. Many companies aren't like that though and prefer talking to tech support people over diving into the source code themselves. I guess we should just be happy about the fact that they fund Linux development at Red Hat.