Next time your kernel breaks and there’s no fix or you can’t use some new device because no one has written a driver for it yet, I hope you remember this post.
Anyway, parent said obscure hardware, so hardly useful for most people. And it sounded more like a personal activity, it is not clear he/she did publishing or upstreaming or blogging about it.
By the way: actual drivers for complex hardware are nowadays mostly written or maintained by companies.