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by Fluorescence 478 days ago
> Android devices have been plagued with vendors having out-of-tree device drivers that compile for linux 3.x, but not 4.x or 5.x

What's preventing adding a driver compatibility layer over the unstable API? I would accept a some performance cost and NOPs for new features using a shim for existing legacy binary drivers compared to being forced to junk functioning hardware.