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teddyh on Oct 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The state of Android updates is still dire

“You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree.”

— Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-api-no...

ebg13 on Oct 14, 2019 [–]

> and you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree

And fuck the billions of people with CVEd kernels because of it; they're just collateral damage, right? /sigh/

jhanschoo on Oct 14, 2019 | [–]

care to explain?

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