Development statistics for 2.6.28

Posted Jan 8, 2009 12:52 UTC (Thu) by bzolnier (guest, #28067)
Parent article: Development statistics for 2.6.28

"... IDE code, despite the fact that its user base is shrinking."

This is not so black & 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).