Re: [PATCH] staging: remove obsolete network and 16-bit video drivers

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 11:16:29PM -0300, Gabriel Ramos wrote:
> From: Gabriel Ramos Barbosa Mota <maguraa53@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> These drivers are currently in the staging tree and have been identified as unmaintained and obsolete. They lack modern hardware support, do not integrate with the current device model, and represent technical debt. This patch removes these drivers to clean up the staging area and reduce the overall maintenance burden, as there is no evidence of active users or ongoing development for these specific components. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Ramos <maguraa53@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  teste_disco.img | Bin 0 -> 20971520 bytes
>  1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 teste_disco.img
> 
> diff --git a/teste_disco.img b/teste_disco.img
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..13145eb3ecf765e330220f06cf8ad7553c3d9ff2
> GIT binary patch
[snip]

What this patch does is dropping a 20Mb binary into top-level
directory, apparently with empty (and dirty) ext4 image in it
(according to debugfs, that is).

WTF?