that link makes it much more clear > they are removing older code for Qualcomm specific use case that is no longer supported (Wear OS IIRC was discontinued).

that link makes it much more clear > they are removing older code for Qualcomm specific use case that is no longer supported (Wear OS IIRC was discontinued). That pre-dates all the current work, so I expect this was removed because the platform was deprecated and > since maintenance of an officially _labelled_ GKI kernel is more expensive, we're removing the sticker for now. so... basically a nothingburger?