linux-drivers/
drivers/input

Linux input subsystem core

The top-level home of the Linux input subsystem, which is the shared framework that keyboards, mice, touchscreens, joysticks, tablets, and similar devices plug into. It provides the common event-handling plumbing and /dev/input interfaces that individual hardware drivers build on top of.

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recommendation

This is not actually a driver directory; it is the core of the input subsystem itself, holding framework code and infrastructure rather than support for any single piece of hardware. Removal questions don't apply here — the whole input stack on Linux depends on it.

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codex reasoning notes (technical)

Not a driver directory: top-level input subsystem directory containing core/input-framework code and assorted infrastructure rather than one specific kernel-bound hardware driver.