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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers In-Reply-To: <20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-0-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch> Message-ID: <17fae078-66bb-1d22-3b19-d5491a9fbb53@linux-m68k.org> References: <20260421-v7-0-0-net-next-driver-removal-v1-v1-0-69517c689d1f@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 21 Apr 2026, Andrew Lunn wrote: > These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until > recently. They are not much of a maintenance burden because they are small, mature and stable. > Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding issues, > resulting in more work for Maintainers. AI helps find issues but AI also helps resolve issues. > Fixing these old drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have > users. > Removing these old drivers makes little sense, if the issues were only noticed by AI and not by actual users.