[tasogare]

Why Linux doesn't have a driver framework? That's seems the problem here. It exists in Windows, FreeBSD and probably elsewhere too.

[adrianN]

To encourage people to either open source their drivers so that they can be maintained inside the kernel tree, or to pay the cost of updating their stuff themselves so that Linux kernel hackers don't have to pay for backwards compatibility.

[pjmlp]

It does wonders for those stuck with AMD cards on their laptops not supported by the open sourced driver.

[underlines]

if i understand the discussion correctly user space drivers could not help, right? and sadly, user space drivers in android are fairly limited.

https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/drivers

[the_why_of_y]

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html