You're being downvoted but I think you're right in a lot of ways. If you read through the patches for some of the removals, the reasons come down to:
- Nobody is familiar with the code
- Almost all of the recent fixes are from static analysis
- Nobody is even sure if anyone uses the code
This feels a lot like CPython culling stdlib modules and making them pypi packages. The people who rely on those things have a little bit of extra work if they want a recent kernel version, and everyone else benefits (directly or indirectly) by way of there being less stuff that needs attention.
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You're being downvoted but I think you're right in a lot of ways. If you read through the patches for some of the removals, the reasons come down to:
- Nobody is familiar with the code
- Almost all of the recent fixes are from static analysis
- Nobody is even sure if anyone uses the code
This feels a lot like CPython culling stdlib modules and making them pypi packages. The people who rely on those things have a little bit of extra work if they want a recent kernel version, and everyone else benefits (directly or indirectly) by way of there being less stuff that needs attention.