Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports

The Linux kernel maintainers are removing legacy, unmaintained code subsystems (networking drivers, amateur radio, ATM, ISDN) to reduce the burden of managing AI-generated security reports that far exceed the community's ability to address them. This reflects a critical tension between security coverage and maintenance capacity, forcing organizations to choose between keeping deprecated hardware support or preserving system stability and security focus. IT leaders should recognize this as a harbinger of similar triage decisions ahead as AI-driven vulnerability scanning becomes ubiquitous across enterprise infrastructure.