Shared infrastructure code for the Linux media subsystem that lets complex video, camera, and TV capture devices describe their internal pipeline of components (sensors, scalers, encoders) to userspace. It is used by actual media drivers rather than driving any hardware on its own.
This is not actually a driver directory; it is the core Media Controller framework that other media drivers build on top of. There is no specific hardware to keep or remove here, so the usual lifecycle questions do not apply.
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Not a driver directory: media-controller core/framework code under drivers/media/mc, not hardware-specific device driver implementations.