Comment by stonogo

Why do the kernel developers allow corporations to shove code into the tree for hardware nobody has? Google does this too: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

I get that the corporations employ the maintainers of this code, but if that person quits or the company discontinues a product, now we're left with useless crap in the kernel. Why can't these companies just build their own modules? Why is it everyone else's problem?