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arrow-up1210arrow-down1external-linkLinux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Driverswww.phoronix.com@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 months agomessage-square36fedilinkcross-posted to: linux
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•2 months agoThese aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing. Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year. Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
minus-squareChaotic EntropylinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-22 months agoI reserve the right to use my copy of “Mario is Missing!” from 1993.
These aren’t printer drivers, but drivers for a Meson coax NIC that hasn’t been in business for a decade type of thing.
Really popular old drivers stay for a loong time, like the floppy driver that just got removed last year.
Nobody needing a modern kernel is using a floppy drive.
I reserve the right to use my copy of “Mario is Missing!” from 1993.