On Sun, 11 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. What's the rationale for your conclusion? How do you know nobody uses them? > > 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. Well, you don't have do do anything about these drivers, do you? They don't scream for food. And as to the energy, well I doubt this really matters, the amount is noise lost in the overall consumption. Maciej
