It's more compatibility. I've had the DKMS modules break on what were supposed to be minor API compliant kernel upgrades on a major distro. The code was then n

It's more compatibility. I've had the DKMS modules break on what were supposed to be minor API compliant kernel upgrades on a major distro. The code was then not fixed for a month (our fix was to rollback kernel versions and just tag it there, it's since been removed entirely). Soured me on using ZFS for Linux at all in production.