[boardstretcher]

Not a link, but I can tell you that one of the philosphies OpenBSD dev's enjoy is 'trim useless code for maintainability and security.'

LKM hasn't been worked on, improved on, or maintained in any significant way, so... it went away.

There won't be any fanfare made about it officially, because the dev group didn't seem to care about it anymore. Anything un-needed or considered bloat in OpenBSD goes this route eventually,. not with a bang but a whimper.

edit: Having looked at the article, it seems a bit sensationalized by Phoronix. Unfortunately the OpenBSD maintainers didn't care as much as this writer at Phoronix seems to have done.