Projects with bigger problems
Projects with bigger problems
Posted Apr 27, 2026 9:18 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Projects with bigger problems by marcH
Parent article: Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up
What's needed is people to stop complaining when companies work in their internal forks first - all these devices shipped with a fork of the Linux kernel, for example, are doing the right thing from a supply chain security perspective, and you should expect them to have private patches that never get upstreamed.
The LWN site is currently under high scraper load, so comment display has been suppressed for anonymous users. If you are a human, you may read the comments by clicking the button below:
Note: you can avoid this step in the future by logging into your LWN account.