Coming in 2.6.28 - Part 1: ATA support and block layer

In the week since the publication of Linux 2.6.27, the kernel developers have already integrated more than 4000 patches into the main development tree of Linux, from which kernel version 2.6.28 will emerge in late December or early January (Linux 2.6.27).In the case of the IDE subsystem, for example, that is essentially matched to parallel ATA, there have again already been many large changes in previous kernel versions (1, 2), although all current ATA controllers supported by the drivers of the IDE subsystem have already long been able to respond to the new Libata drivers.

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