From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 14:28:44 +0200
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 > My reasons for this patch:
> 
> - Even if x86 is not the only platform that uses MSDOS partitions,
> this should be a positive list, not a negative list. Else every new
> platform has to explicitly express, *not* to use MSDOS partitions.
> Seems awkward.
> 
> - Any platform needing MSDOS partitions but not explicitly listed can
> still turn that option on through the advanced partitioning.
> Currently, allnoconfig gives you MSDOS partitioning, which is not very
> intuitive.

Every platform that supports USB will be able to read USB Storage
Devices which almost everytime have FAT filesystems with MSDOS partitions.

So short of S/390 you get like every platform.

Ciao, Marcus
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