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On Wed, 2024-01-03 at 02:46 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> At the same time, Linux had also rewritten its USB stack three times.
> But it had the luxury of starting pretty much from scratch each time,
> without having to carry around a lot of legacy baggage, because all
> the drivers included in the Linux kernel source tree could be updated
> at the same time.

That's true but it is a source of considerable pain for commercial
products such as VMware, VirtualBox, ZFS and others. They all have to
devote substantial engineering resources to release updates for every
kernel release. 
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