http://lwn.net/Articles/312074/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Development statistics for 2.6.28". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/314012/rss 2009-01-08T12:52:43+00:00 bzolnier <div class="FormattedComment"> "... IDE code, despite the fact that its user base is shrinking."<br> <p> This is not so black &amp; white. While most desktop distributions switched to use libata for PATA handling this is not true for many embedded distros (there are new IDE host drivers for embedded appliances submitted/merged with each kernel release, moreover there doesn't seem to be an organized effort from libata side to add support for all non-x86 hardware currently only handled by IDE).<br> </div>