The patch strips out 2,137 lines of driver code, plus the Kconfig and Makefile entries that reference it. Jiri, who has maintained parts of the kernel's serial driver code for years, floated marking moxa.c as broken or dropping it outright. What's notable is what finally moved it (AI poking holes). Where AI comes inSo saying that "AI is deleting kernel code" would be overstating what's actually happened. So take note of this, while AI isn't writing much of the Linux kernel yet, it's already influencing which parts of it get tossed out.