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Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus system for connecting different systems/components/instruments within industrial environments
Similar to other old and unmaintained staging drivers set for removal with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle, the Fieldbus code is the latest on the chopping block. Philipp Hortmann noted in the request for comments to remove the code that there have just been 11 patches to Fieldbus in the last three years -- some of which were just maintenance changes for jiving with the rest of the Linux kernel code such as around deprecated functions. So as a result of the code being dormant, the mailing list proposal is to remove Fieldbus from the mainline kernel if no one steps up.
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