Linux jumps to 7.1 — and starts deleting code just to dodge AI bug reports (lore.kernel.org)
Linux 7.1 ships a rewritten in-kernel NTFS driver with real write performance, an Apple SMC battery driver for Asahi MacBooks, and early Intel Nova Lake and AMD graphics enablement. It also deletes over 140,000 lines: ISDN, PCMCIA controllers, i486-era subarchitectures.
The motive for some of those removals is new: AI-assisted bug reporting was generating noise against drivers for obsolete hardware, so the maintainers simply removed the targets.
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