• fluxion@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If you fork it, you’re stuck maintaining your own kernel. It quickly becomes a nightmare as you accumulate more custom changes while bringing in fixes/features from mainline kernel.

    They’ve already submitted a patch to change the mainline/upstream kernel. If the community/maintainers accept the patch then they won’t need to fork it and can rely on distros backporting the support to older/downstream kernels if needed.