We are clearly talking about OP’s claim, which is for the PC industry. Not Linux development.
No. I responded to your statement that 'They are going to write the Linux driver and say, “put this in your handheld.”' So we're talking only about Linux development.
I'm speaking from the perspective of the IP owner who writes the driver and manufacturer who puts together all the components.
As am I.
And I'm sure the drivers would get mainlined.
That's not the norm.
Intel
Intel is huge and employs shit loads of Linux developers. Most vendors, who will be much smaller, don't. For example, Realtek, who stick a crappily written driver in a tarball on their download page and call it a day. Or any of the hundreds of silicon vendors (such as NXP, Nvidia, Rockchip, Allwinner, Realtek again, Qualcomm, etc., etc.) with "BSP"s who give their customers a 500GB package containing, among lots of proprietary userland shit, some butchered horror show based on Linux 3.3 with no git history.
I can't imagine why you would expect drivers to be mainlined by a vendor.
They are going to write the Linux driver and say, "put this in your handheld."
That would be terrible. They shouldn't be giving their customers a driver, they should be sending their driver to mainline and telling their customers "Use any version of Linux after 6.whenever their driver was committed".
That only mentions harassment of them and their family incidentally, I can't see any mention of harassment as a reason for quitting the project or in fact related to the project in any way.
LOL
No. I responded to your statement that 'They are going to write the Linux driver and say, “put this in your handheld.”' So we're talking only about Linux development.