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tssvayesterday at 4:17 PM1 replyview on HN

If they are drivers for devices from the last century which nobody even uses anymore why keep them in the kernel when they, as shown by LLMs, are potential sources of security vulnerabilities? Seems more logical to take the action being taken and remove them.


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skydhashyesterday at 4:58 PM

I like OpenBSD for that. If there's something that no one uses and wants to maintain, it's removed. That happened with the bluetooth driver. It was too complicated and no one missed it enough to add it back.