Hi,

I'm a user of AppleTalk and other "Retro"-Features in the Linux Kernel.

On 16 Jun 2026, at 2:55, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

We can complain about the AI slop til the cows comes home.
I don't like it, you don't like it. What difference does it make?

If y'all have real solutions please share. Complaining about
"commercial interests" and "nuk[ing] everything in a panic reaction"
is not helpful.

the solution, as Adrian pointed out, is to leave these features in the Linux kernel but have them disabled by default. Maybe put a warning message in the kernel config tools that people should only enable these if they know what they are doing.

These "retro"-features should not pose any security risk of they are not compiled into a kernel.

Greetings

Carsten