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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre: why replace hdaX with sdaX?
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Karl Goetz |
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre: why replace hdaX with sdaX? |
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Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:36:41 +1000 |
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:53:12 +0200
Christophe Jarry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I would like to know why linux-libre now uses sdaX to name partitions
> when it used to name it after hdaX?
That change was made in Linux a long time ago; were you using an old
kernel?
IIRC it was the shift to libata, @ 2.6.20 or 2.6.22 (This may have been
an option until recently, lxo might know more).
thanks,
kk
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