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The kernel is regularly shedding off unmaintained code. So the codebase is actually not growing as much as it could.

• c7DJTLrn 5y ago
  The code they're shedding off is drivers. They won't ever get rid of old syscalls because Linus refuses to break userspace, ever.
  • caf 5y ago
    Frequently the old syscall just ends up as a stub that calls into the new implementation though.