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EVBUG Driver Being Dropped From Linux 6.14 - Useless For Years & Known Security Threat
Linux 6.13 cleared out more than 100k lines of old and unmaintained code while that end of year code cleaning isn't stopping..
EVBUG is the driver for the Linux kernel input subsystem's event debugging. But besides being an admitted security threat, the EVBUG driver appears to be useless to developers and has been so for many years. Also, it apparently causes confusion among people who [accidentally] enable CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG and are annoyed/confused by their kernel log being spammed by a lot of useless data.
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