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Comment by tuna74

10 months ago

Maintainers can't yank out code if that leads to feature, performance or user space regressions.

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janice1999  10 months ago

Entire filesystems and classes of drivers have been purged from the kernel over time. Removing stuff is not impossible as some here suggest.

  • tuna74  10 months ago

    Yes, but removing stuff takes a lot of time and effort that most maintainers want to spend doing something more productive or fun.

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