On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 01:24:42AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2024, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > I am wondering if it is not the time to retire bus mice drivers since > > they have been out of favor for close to 30 years, as well as 3 drivers > > for portables from late '90s to early 2000. > > Are these drivers broken, e.g. fail to compile or crash the system? I have no idea because I doubt that anyone has tested them since forever. > Otherwise what's the gain from removal? The same gain that we get from removing obsolete boards and architectures - less maintenance burden, less work when we need to change some APIs, less energy burnt by 0-day and other bots, CI systems, etc, compiling useless drivers over and over and over. Thanks. -- Dmitry
