If you fork it, you’re stuck maintaining your own kernel. It quickly becomes a nightmare as you accumulate more custom changes will bringing in fixes/features from mainline kernel.
They’ve already submitted a patch to change the mainline/upstream kernel. If the community/maintainers accept the patch then they won’t need to fork it and can rely on distros back porting the support to older/downstream kernels if needed.
ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone 6 months ago
Yeah the headline is stupid bait.
They already built it. They're trying to contribute the change upstream.
Which is technically "requesting higher core support", but is a very obnoxious way to phrase it.