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"Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers," reads the pull request.
And so Thursday Linus Torvald merged the pull request "to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem," reports Phoronix, "and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters."
This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active.
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