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On 08/09/2016 02:10 PM, Ben Swartzlander wrote:

> The best example of why this is good is Linux. If you tell the Linux people to
> take their drivers out of the tree I can guarantee you they'll laugh you out of
> the room. The reasons for their stance are many and I won't recount them here
> (unless you want me to).

Just to play devil's advocate, the latest Intel ethernet drivers are generally 
found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000

These drivers often have fixes/features that haven't made it into the kernel 
yet, and are compilable against a variety of kernel versions rather than just 
the most recent.

Of course the same developers also maintain in-tree kernel drivers, but changes 
to the in-tree drivers only affect the currently-maintained subset of kernel 
branches.

Other vendors also maintain out-of-tree drivers as well as in-tree drivers, so 
the situation is exactly analogous to Cinder.

Chris