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0 pointsmrheosuper6mo ago0 comments

if the out-of-tree driver does not touch kernel space, it should not be broken.

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Well yes, if the out-of-tree driver sticks to public stable APIs it shouldn't be broken. And analogously here, if the software in question stuck to public stable APIs and didn't reach into private internals it shouldn't have broken.

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0 pointsmrheosuper6mo ago0 comments

if the out-of-tree driver does not touch kernel space, it should not be broken.

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aw16211076mo ago

Well yes, if the out-of-tree driver sticks to public stable APIs it shouldn't be broken. And analogously here, if the software in question stuck to public stable APIs and didn't reach into private internals it shouldn't have broken.

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