https://lwn.net/Articles/312074/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Development statistics for 2.6.28". en-us Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:23:00 +0000 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:23:00 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/314012/ https://lwn.net/Articles/314012/ 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> Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:52:43 +0000