Let's look at this differently. Most hardware is produced by vendors who don't care about Linux. We need to make that hardware work anyway. The only way we can achieve that is to be bug-compatible with Windows. Therefore, any way in which Linux behaviour varies from Windows behaviour is a bug. The only reason to export any indication that the kernel is Linux is because our behaviour is not identical to Windows. But, given that that's a bug, the solution should be to fix Linux and not to encourage vendors to put workarounds in their firmware.
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