[IloveHN84]

I'm still contrary to all those drivers additions that are being made, slowing the compile time.

Why don't they get rid of old drivers (say, prior to 2000)?

It would make the kernel slimmer for sure. They could made optional and one has to self compile the kernel to enable them

[lostapathy]

You can already disable building whatever drivers you don’t need when you make your kernel config.

[nailer]

Why are you building modules you don't use?

The kernel seems to be the most half understood part of Linux. Not picking on you specifically, it's actually super common to think:

- More drivers means slower build times

- To add a driver you need to rebuild a kernel

Both of which are wrong and have been wrong for a decade (nearly two!).