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Well, it is about code quality. And the same codebase should work on different hardware, which is not something that is required in downstream forks.

But it is sad to see that the driver was submitted in the past, is still actively developed and improved, but there doesn’t seem to be plans of submitting them again.

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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Nothing of this is a burden, it is just part of being a good contributor that reads and follows the rules. Contributing is pretty easy, when you have read and are following the guide. If you haven’t already, you should try it.
  
  I am pretty sure that this isn’t the first contribution of Valve to the Linux kernel.
  
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  - skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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    cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well, I consume more open source software that I will ever produce, so I am in a dept to the community. If it means working a bit more to make my contribution useful to others and fit it into the bigger whole, I will gladly do so.
    
    Valve contributed to Linux before, so the fact that they don’t have any direct upstreaming plans right now indicates that something is causing friction.
    
    I would avoid reading too much into it. They and their developers are still contributing on other stuff. Also when working together, there will always be some friction, in any collaborative project ever.
    
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