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Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

There continues to be a lout of cleaning up of the kernel source tree to deal with noise generated by AI / LLM coding agents sending in reports and patches for old drivers that are likely not actively used by anyone on modern upstream kernel builds. Rather than continuing to carry these old drivers around with the uptick in AI/LLM-generated noise, kernel maintainers are finding it better to just…

phoronix.com ·2026-08-05

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