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> Linux kernel ships with drivers for very old devices and doesn't have plans for removing them.

I think as long as there is someone to maintain that driver, it doesn't get removed.



But if removing them would simplify other parts of code, I think they would do it, like they did for i386 recently.


Indeed, they do remove truly unused architectures and drivers from the kernel -- support for IBM MicroChannel is gone, as well as support for "it was uncommon back then" hardware. I have a bunch of Allied Telesis ISA 10baseFL Ethernet cards that were recently removed.




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