> The code is GPL, nobody will arrest you for forking it.
People will bitch about that too - see what happens to kernels of Android handsets, people will complain that OEMs don’t want to waste time upstreaming drivers.
People will bitch about that too - see what happens to kernels of Android handsets, people will complain that OEMs don’t want to waste time upstreaming drivers.
Presuming that the hacks only exist within a particular kernel module, and that that module only gets loaded when the given hardware is found, don't those hacks then only affect people with the (previously, and still mostly) unsupported hardware? Which — at least for hardware in the critical path to userland interactivity — is strictly better than their hardware not working at all?