[cogman10]

That'd definitely fit the Qualcom pattern of trying to force you to update by not upstreaming their linux drivers.

This is one place where windows has an advantage over linux. Window's longterm support for device drivers is generally really good. A driver written for Vista is likely to run on 11.

[packetlost]

A stable driver ABI will do that. And a couple billion in revenue to fund bending over backwards to make sure stuff doesn't break.