What bar..? It gives freedom to kernel developers to update their apis more freely and maintain effective backwards compatibility, at the cost of extra work man

What bar..? It gives freedom to kernel developers to update their apis more freely and maintain effective backwards compatibility, at the cost of extra work managing/updating the drivers themselves instead of relying on vendors to do it. The only bar then is that the driver needs to be in a sane state before being accepted into the kernel tree, so that it remains easy to maintain sanity. Which seems to me a very fair, if not necessary, ask. It’s a pretty clearcut tradeoff, and they apparently have managed the manpower for it thus far... I don’t know why you need “elitist, ideological hackers” to support this strategy