[$] Synaptics patent claims stop work on DisplayLink drivers
Mike Lothian owns a docking station (or dock) that uses a DisplayLink chipset that had, at least in his opinion, subpar performance on Linux. He decided to try improving the Linux driver, with LLM assistance, but ran into one problem that he could not solve—so he asked for help, hoping that Synaptics's developers would lend a hand. (DisplayLink was acquired by Synaptics in 2022.) Rather than help…
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