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Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers


Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees

Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users of the mainline Linux kernel... As such the staging pull lightens the kernel by around 107k lines of code. Let's hope that GPIB work continues to happen and the code further cleaned up for the aging lab equipment.

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