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that's not how it works. android device drivers aren't even compatible through android releases. i'm talking 4.0-4.1 4.1-4.2 etc. they could be if we would hav

that's not how it works. android device drivers aren't even compatible through android releases. i'm talking 4.0-4.1 4.1-4.2 etc. they could be if we would have access to the binary blobs they link against, but we don't. asking for binary compatibility in device drivers across linux distributions is not really a trivial think to ask for.

zanny 13y ago
Somehow a lot of core libraries manage to be major version binary compatible, through things like pimpl. I don't see why device drivers couldn't as well, I think it is a sound compromise.