Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken & Unused Drivers To Remove 19k L.O.C.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken & Unused Drivers To Remove 19k L.O.C.

In addition to the Linux 6.10 USB changes and char/misc with the new NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman on Wednesday also sent out the staging updates for Linux 6.10. There isn't much in the way of new code but some 19k lines of code removed thanks to removing an unused driver as well as a broken driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Staging

[jeisom]

“But, I am using that.”

Probably someone who has not upgraded past kernel 4.0

[rene]

or about as much as one amdgpu header ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the users of those experimental drivers will probably not be amused, ... :-/

[kpedersen]

“But, I am using that.”

To be fair, niche drivers like the "pi433" and recent Steam Deck Platform driver probably shouldn't be included in the Linux kernel in the first place.

Some bits of the PRISM2_USB wireless driver code date back to 1999. It's 2024 and support for these Intersil (Conexant) Prism 2/2.5/3 802.11b USB devices is now removed from the mainline kernel

1999 is the same year that Gnome was released. It is 2024 so can we get rid of that piece of shite from Linux yet?

Ironically relating to recent post.

[jeisom]

To be fair, niche drivers like the "pi433" and recent Steam Deck Platform driver probably shouldn't be included in the Linux kernel in the first place.



1999 is the same year that Gnome was released. It is 2024 so can we get rid of that piece of shite from Linux yet?

Ironically relating to recent post.

I agree with most of your assessment, except I do think the steam deck platform driver is not niche. If there was like a few hundred, sure, but at this point I believe we are talking millions now.

[NateHubbard]

1999 is the same year that Gnome was released. It is 2024 so can we get rid of that piece of shite from Linux yet?

Ironically relating to recent post.

Gnome isn't part of the kernel, so you can remove it whenever you want.
Kind of like how I don't have KDE installed, except I don't complain about things that I don't use.

[Brittle2]

To be fair, niche drivers like the "pi433" and recent Steam Deck Platform driver probably shouldn't be included in the Linux kernel in the first place.

no, i don't want to search/hunt for drivers, that idea was always dumb

1999 is the same year that Gnome was released. It is 2024 so can we get rid of that piece of shite from Linux yet?

are you high?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

I agree with most of your assessment, except I do think the steam deck platform driver is not niche. If there was like a few hundred, sure, but at this point I believe we are talking millions now.

Yes, it was a long time ago now that they passed a million units sold.

[QwertyChouskie]

or about as much as one amdgpu header ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the users of those experimental drivers will probably not be amused, ... :-/

Headers aren't really the same as functional code. These headers AFAIU are just storage of machine-generated data about various GPUs that the actual driver code can then use.