• flashgnash@lemm.ee
    114·
    10 hours ago

    All well and good for people who know how to do that

    A lot of users won’t even know what a kernel is let alone why their printer has stopped working or that they need to raise a GitHub issue

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      19·
      8 hours ago

      These aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing.

      Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.

      Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.

    • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 hours ago

      You’re very mistaken if you think the kernel in your IoT device ever got updated beyond what it shipped with.