Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

Posted Sep 27, 2017 18:08 UTC (Wed) by Otus (subscriber, #67685)
In reply to: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers by mcatanzaro
Parent article: Fedora's foundations meet proprietary drivers

> So if a new kernel *were* to seriously break users (and this one doesn't), then it really ought to wait until the next Fedora release: just like kernel upgrades have to wait in every other distro.

That's not a solution unless the old kernel version gets updates from the distro.

I have not tried to maintain a kernel release, but I know that having to support multiple versions of any software will require multiple times the maintenance resources. So the resources would have to be there or else you'd be trading some users being unable to boot new kernels to *all* users being vulnerable to security holes.