Why "how soon can we remove X" instead of "how long can we have X"?

Posted Sep 4, 2025 11:22 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)
In reply to: Why "how soon can we remove X" instead of "how long can we have X"? by wtarreau
Parent article: The future of 32-bit support in the kernel

Well, IMHO lots of "whiners" *is* a decent metric for the importance of the continued support for the device in the kernel (and userspace, etc): it actually means people who use said devices to run Linux and keep it up-to-date, and who *care* about it.

"Chipset not-yet-in-EOL" and "units sold" metrics often just mean "stock vendor firmware stuck on a kernel from the past decade + landfill"...