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by johndoe0815 1479 days ago
Not quite... Linux has also deprecated and removed support for processor architectures and devices (though pretty obscure architectures and peripherals such as ISDN controllers) - see https://lwn.net/Articles/769468/
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As far as I know, you are free to add them back in whenever you want. Support is removed from the kernel when no one is around to maintain the feature. If a breaking change has to be made and no one steps up to implement it, the support gets dropped.