The poster is making the distinction between working to merge your changes upstream and just dumping your changes on an unsuspecting world.
The latter occurs decently often in the Linux Kernel world, and if there isn't much desire for the changes they can technically exist but never get merged.
Whereas there are other drivers where the only one that cares about them is the company that uses them, but their developers have worked to get it actually upstreamed and help maintain it.
The latter occurs decently often in the Linux Kernel world, and if there isn't much desire for the changes they can technically exist but never get merged.
Whereas there are other drivers where the only one that cares about them is the company that uses them, but their developers have worked to get it actually upstreamed and help maintain it.