Comment 111 for bug 1707352

The manufacturers won't. And if each manufacturer would try to create all the symlinks needed in order to make the drivers work on all the linux distries that tend to be broken in different ways that would clearly be prone to create conflicts.

But if Ubuntu has broken things by starting to expect them in unexpected places Ubuntu could automatically provide all the symlinks that are needed to make the drivers appear in all the places they could or should be - and nearly all drivers by nearly all manufacturers would restart working out-of-the box without requiring intervention of the manufacturers and applying fixes to every single driver.