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Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
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this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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Okay, someone talk me down from the ledge here. I'm not techy, but I've been on Fedora for over a year, and dual booting since like 08. But the biggest hurdle back in the day for me was that my wifi was so hit or miss, even when it worked it was slow as shit. That and Netflix not working are what kept me from going full Ubuntu in like 09/10.
Am I going to have to go back to long ass Ethernet cords? Fuck, my laptop doesn't even have an Ethernet port :(
It's not like the driver is going to stop working.
Even if the OS gets updated?
If the ABI changes, it'll break. I was mainly addressing the "on a ledge" part of the comment, where they seemed to be talking much more short term.
Dude chill it'll be fine. Why are you on the ledge after this post? Someone is obviously going to step up and take their place.
Its pretty obvious that the folks at Linux aren't going to just say fuck the WiFi stack because the current sole maintainer is stepping down.
Also, it being a sole maintainer doesn't mean no one else would could do it.. Its probably a job that this person was able to handle solo and now that the position has become vacant, another will step in.
If this was some small niche I can understand the concern about the potential of having it go unfilled but WiFi / wireless is crucial.
Likely sole maintainer, not sole contributor
I know not all hardware is created equal, but my two cents are now that Valve has planted themselves squarely In the mobile Linux world, they'll continue to pace the way on innovation and I wouldn't be surprised if larger organizations continue to drive improvement. There's no way they would just let that die. Linux gaming is going to have staying power.
That's what I think as well. Fingers crossed!