--- title: Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise... description: Old Linux kernel drivers are increasingly being removed due to noise generated by AI/LLM coding agents submitting reports and patches for obsolete hardware.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/additional-old-linux-drivers-face-removal-due-to-noise-from-ai-llm-coding-agents-hbeztoea3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents | daily.dev og:description: Old Linux kernel drivers are increasingly being removed due to noise generated by AI/LLM coding agents submitting reports and patches for obsolete hardware.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/additional-old-linux-drivers-face-removal-due-to-noise-from-ai-llm-coding-agents-hbeztoea3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hbeztOea3.png og:image:alt: Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Old Linux kernel drivers are increasingly being removed due to noise generated by AI/LLM coding agents submitting reports and patches for obsolete hardware. The latest casualties are the Moxa Intellio multi-port serial card driver (dating to 1999, ~2.2k lines) and the IPWireless 3G PCMCIA driver (~3.6k lines), both slated for removal in upcoming kernel cycles. Greg Kroah-Hartman explicitly cited LLM activity as a reason to drop the Moxa driver, noting the hardware is no longer in use and AI-generated patches would only waste maintainers' time. This pattern of removing dormant drivers to reduce AI-generated noise has become a recurring theme in recent Linux kernel development cycles. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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