Fingerprint Reader Works on T480

"You need to understand that the decisions here are political. Technical aspects only play a minor role overall." [0]

While T480 support is interesting in itself, this is the deeper issue that I wanted to bring to HN's attention, but could not without editorializing titles (or writing a blog post and submitting that instead).

libfprint refuse to adapt their architecture to support the T480 driver, which requires a loose coupling due to device lifecycles, because doing so would also allow compatibility with proprietary drivers, which they object to on principle.

I thought HN might have some interesting commentary on that.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libfprint/libfprint/-/issues/...