On: Helping Valve to power up Steam devices

[altfredd]

> intentionally hostile kernel interface

If open-sourcing your entire kernel is being "hostile", I don't think that there is or ever was a "friendly" OS.

[OvermindDL1 → altfredd]

I think what they were referencing with that is that the kernel hardware interface is unstable, it changes literally every version, which is why you went to upstream it so you don't have to keep it up yourself after that.