Linux users out here arguing that the modern kernel should have support for pre 802.11b hardware for context we're talking max Wi-Fi speeds of 2 Mbit/s, a standard from 1997 https://www.phoronix.com/news/2023-Linux-Drop-Old-WiFi
Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers
While the Linux kernel tends to keep around drivers for even very old hardware, once there are no known users left that would still be updating to new Linux kernel versions or the drivers pose a significant maintenance burden, it's eventually time to…www.phoronix.com
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in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •My biggest Linux gripe is that we never got API revisions for drivers, and the drivers are stuck in the kernel tree because of it.
When Linux was new-ish, Slackware had essentially IDE (PATA) or SCSI kernels, tossed on one bootable floppy disk, while the rootfs resided on another. That would have been a great time to make a 0.1 driver API and split out the source tree so the drivers lived separately, and a kernel supported driver API revisions. Hindsight, 20/20
Kevin Karhan :verified:
in reply to Brodie Robertson • • •TBH you'd be surprised how many installations of that are still around i.e. for industrial robots.
After all, those have quite a long lifespan and don't get replaced just because ZigBee or whatever is the latest hotness.
Same goes woth a lot of "Internet of Shit" appliances...
Giovanni Petri
in reply to Kevin Karhan :verified: • •I doubt they would get kernel updates regardless of this
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