> Of course, that costs and fortune and hampers the sales of newer chipsets so it’s not in the SoC vendor’s interest to do so. On the other hand, it would be i

> Of course, that costs and fortune and hampers the sales of newer chipsets so it’s not in the SoC vendor’s interest to do so. On the other hand, it would be in a lot of vendors' cost-saving interests to massively lobby for a (much more) stable in-kernel driver interface in the Linux kernel so that the vendors only rarely have to change their Linux drivers when a new kernel version gets released.