Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Removal of a few obsolete input drivers

[Dmitry Torokhov]

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