They have great stability between kernels by design. Better than Windows dll based drivers IMHO.

As someone who actually writes drivers I'm a little frustrated at this whole thread with people claiming Linux drivers have to be distributed this way.

Kernel modules exist for a reason, literally to allow end users as easy and as forwards compatible of a way to install drivers as windows dll based drivers. This whole thread has a lot of know nothings chiming in if I'm blunt.

Kernel modules absolutely run in kernel space though.

I’ve literally written kernel modules for high speed networking devices that have full access to the memory bus and enumerate pci devices. There’s no userspace or kernel space question here. It’s merely a matter of someone turning this into an easily installable kernel module

I can’t see any blocker to publishing this as a prebuilt kernel module honestly.

For driver developers the above where you rebuild the kernel is a necessary step in developing the driver but now the above is done someone should make the trivial next step to make this into a prebuilt kernel module which are trivial to install for end users with no rebuild/reboot required. (I have built kernel modules before but I don’t have this laptop myself, sorry!).

I agree. I can’t see any reason this couldn’t be packaged as a prebuilt kernel module so end users can trivially install it. The instructions and code here can be used to build the kernel module.

I don’t have this laptop but have built kernel modules in the past to give context. It’s a tiny step to publish this as a kernel module so end users can trivially install this (this reduces the instructions to downloading one file, running one command, with no reboot or rebuild needed) so it’s quite reasonable to call this out and ask someone to do it.

It’s a bit like publishing a windows driver as raw source code. Great work but there’s no reason not to ship the prebuilt driver right?