Re: [PATCH net 00/18] Remove a number of ISA and PCMCIA Ethernet drivers

[Finn Thain]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2026, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> These old drivers have not been much of a Maintenance burden until 
> recently.

They are not much of a maintenance burden because they are small, mature 
and stable.

> Now there are more newbies using AI and fuzzers finding issues, 
> resulting in more work for Maintainers.

AI helps find issues but AI also helps resolve issues.

> Fixing these old drivers make little sense, if it is not clear they have 
> users.
> 

Removing these old drivers makes little sense, if the issues were only 
noticed by AI and not by actual users.