char: applicom: remove low-quality, unused driver

The applicom driver supports PCI Profibus cards from Applicom, later
acquired by Molex. It has severe coding style issues and has attracted
a number of bug and security fixes over the years, despite the fact
that no one appears to be using it. It was broken from at least the
beginning of Git history (Linux 2.6.12-rc2 in April 2005) until October
2008, when a fatal bug was fixed in commit bc20589bf1c6 ("applicom.c:
fix apparently-broken code in do_ac_read()"). In the commit message,
the author commented that no one they knew was able to test the change.
Since then, there have been no commits that indicate the driver is
being used. Later PCI and PCI-Express Applicom Profibus cards only
officially support Windows [1], and even the PCI-Express cards have
been discontinued [2]. Given all these factors, remove the driver to
reduce future maintenance workload.

[1] https://www.sarcitalia.it/file_upload/prodotti//PCIE1500S7_PFB_987651-3769_0876250001505823933.pdf
[2] https://us.rs-online.com/product/molex-woodhead-brad/112011-5026/70631928/

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <enelsonmoore@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503035824.24078-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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