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by ywvcbk 626 days ago
Maybe they should stop breaking them then?

That’s a design decision, Linux maintainers decided to not have a stable ABI because they’d rather have no drivers at all than proprietary ones.

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The only decision to be made there is when to break them, not if. Linux went with "sooner than later".
if you prefer to have security vulnerabilities, you can always pin your kernel version?

the kernel needs to keep evolving, and the maintainers will keep your code updated for free - you just have to open source it.