They're being removed due to a lack of maintenance. If anyone cared about that hardware and fixed the bugs, surely they would be kept.
What I read in the link was that it was removed because LLM was making suggestions to improve the code/bring it up to modern standards but since it was rarely used no-one wanted to review it not that it was buggy.
>In recent months we have seen a lot of old kernel code removed stemming from that AI/LLM noise.
This is the opposite of what my parent was hoping to see, extended support for old/obscure hardware because we have LLM.
>This is the opposite of what my parent was hoping to see, extended support for old/obscure hardware because we have LLM.
That would only happen if the linux project was happy to accept LLM-generated fixes without human review - which they aren't. If human review is necessary, then unleashing LLMs to produce fixes and improvements to thousands of linux drivers is a detriment, not a benefit. The amount of code would just be too much, and reviewers would be swamped.