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Because manufacturers choose to make a crappy kernel fork with hacky drivers. So it's on them to provide updates to that crap-kernel. If they instead made sure
by summm 5y ago
Because manufacturers choose to make a crappy kernel fork with hacky drivers. So it's on them to provide updates to that crap-kernel. If they instead made sure their drivers are in mainline, they could just use official current kernels as updates, and this is how it's meant...
- pantulis 5y agoIf that crap-kernel passed QA tests on its day, what would be the excuse for updating it? The use case does not change, then the crap-kernel is valid. Example: my Korg Kronos is a synthesizer workstation that runs an outdated Linux kernel on an obsolete motherboard. But it just works, it's a musical instrument so why would it need new updates? Security could be arguable (it even has an FTP server, so, yes, but it's a musical keyboard not a server) New features? The product feature set was closed when I bought it. There have been a few updates but basically everything is the same.