Why does this need to be in the kernel?
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2026
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coz it's an monolithic architecture, they all get compiled in. if you don't want it, you can compile the kernel yourself, specifically for your hardware.
@sip @panda_abyss and if i remember correctly from the last time i made a bad attempt at that lol its optional sometimes to support a driver as modular but supprt for that driver module still needs to be set during compile? if im wrong just tell me to shut up its been probably 15 or 20 years since i tried to compile my own kernel
tbf never tried compiling. Just not my cup of tea. it works OOB.
I might have had a laptop that it's wifi card driver somehow got botched on a linux update, but I didn't have the knowledge back then to attempt compiling from source, let alone with a pinned driver.
And my audio out via hdmi is still broken..
What I hate about Valve's Linux efforts is how slow they are with upstreaming their changes. I think there are still some LCD fixes not in the vanilla kernel.
Do you actually want "fast" AI-sloppy maintenance/nonsense, where customers would get even more issues eventually, and ruin the reputation?
Adequate verification and careful, responsible attitude to changes requires time.
I am sorry, but I have no idea how you may "hate" accountability.
Sure, don't rush into things. But when you have a fix that's just a few lines that's languishing in your repositories for years something's up.
I'm not talking specifically about this issue. There are several drivers for the Steam Deck controller and the thermal system that I have to compile myself to be able to properly run a vanilla kernel on my Steam Deck LCD. There has been more than enough time to fix the stuff.
Still glad that it's open source so that I can just grab everything I need. But it would be nice if I could just forget about it and find all fixes in my kernel half a year or so after they've been successfully in production in SteamOS.
You need to understand that testing the fix itself takes time. Especially if it is for a new hardware to make sure it doesn't break other hardware somehow
The fix that they applied wouldn't work as a general solution, it would break other things.
This commit implements their solution in a 'If Steam Deck then ' kind of way so it will resolve the Steam Deck issue on mainline without breaking other things.