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Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers
With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle.
Removing the driver clears out 3.6k lines of code and lowers the maintenance burden for other kernel developers. This driver was contributed back in 2011 but doesn't appear to be actively used nor do any card readers using this chipset appear to be available still in retail channels. We'll see if any other hardware drivers get queued up for removal in the coming weeks ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window happening in mid to late November.
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