[Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre: why replace hdaX with sdaX?

[Christophe Jarry]

> > 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?

I was using 2.6.33.3 before and it used hdaX.

> 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, I sent a message to linux-libre list.

Christophe