Linus Torvalds merged a 138,161-line removal into Linux 7.1 on April 24.
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Linus Torvalds merged a 138,161-line removal into Linux 7.1 on April 24. Out went AX.25 amateur radio, ISDN, ATM, plus Andrew Lunn's 18 legacy Ethernet drivers. Cause: AI-generated bug reports against code with no users, no maintainers. Lunn's series merged in three days; mailing-list timeline is usually six weeks. AI bug reports are a maintenance burden. The kernel paid by deleting. Every project on volunteer triage faces this arithmetic.
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