Linux kernel developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman has made some rather astounding revelation about the upcoming Linux 3.17 kernel. According to Greg, over a enormous 200,000 lines of code are currently being removed from the Linux 3.17 kernel on the boiler plate of the production subsystem. The same has been attributed to the removal of a bunch of old, unmaintained drivers (14 to be precise).
There’s some real tight work going on with respect to the Linux 3.17 kernel. While as many as 254,000 lines of erroneous code have been removed, over 39,000 new lines of code have been introduced as of current stats (revealed by Greg). The black sheep here are a string of as many as 14 different obsolete drivers that noone in their right mind is willing to work upon anymore, therefore their removal was only necessary. These drivers include: Crystalhd, Winbond, wlags49_h2, serqt_usb2, dgrp, cxt1e1, tidspbridge, ced1401, frontier, keucr, phison,silicom, and sep respectively.
Linux founder, Linus Torvalds recently announced the release of the stable build of Linux 3.16, aka, Shuffling Zombie Juror. There are a host of improvements and new features in this new release as expected. These improvements include new and improved drivers and some complex integral improvements like unified control hierarchy among others.
