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by a-dub 693 days ago
> No you can’t roll back bad driver updates in any OS, if you could then by definition they do not sit in the kernel space.

drivers and kernel binaries are typically installed and maintained by user space programs that run with some sort of elevated privileges.

"kernel space" is just a runtime context, what gets loaded into there typically comes ordinary (protected) files on the disk.