Linux 7.1 adds some new PCIe drivers, while nuking some PCI drivers

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Fix Dreamcast, deprecate retro IBM. Yeah, I don't understand either.

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If something has maintainers and users the kernel will keep/add it. If it doesn't it will get taken out. It's pretty simple.

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"Talk is cheap. Send patches."

You can't maintain everything, especially when there's few users for it and resources are limited.

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Every update kernel grows bigger and harder to maintain, also if nothing would be cut out then more bugs and issues will appear.

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Just as long as I don't have to re-build a kernel for the pcmcia module like the old days /s