loganberries

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   by loganberries 4y ago

   > send Linus a pull request Linux doesn't do pull requests. You actually send your patches as an email to a kernel maintainer (different people accept patches for different parts of the codebase) and then they'll review it. The
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   by loganberries 4y ago

   Currently, you rely on Nvidia to keep the drivers up to date and working with the kernel you use in your OS. If the drivers aren't upstream, a future kernel can break them. So if you update your OS, it might no longer support your GPU
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   by loganberries 4y ago

   The kernel has bugs, all software has bugs. But there are massive massive test suites run by hundreds of companies on linux-next. If you email off a stack of patches that breaks something, chances are you'll get emails back telling you