Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:23:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
       Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
In-Reply-To: <20030506181346.C15174@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305061320080.11648-100000@xanadu.home>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 919
Lines: 24

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:32:52PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> > Maybe I was just thinking the wrong way. Given that my systems don't
> > use IDE, SCSI, a floppy or anything emulating one of them, like USB
> > storage or CF. I don't want MSDOS partitioning, but in fact, I don't
> > want any of the disk-centric code at all, fs/partitions is just a part
> > of that.
> 
> Maybe introducing a CONFIG_DISK option and making partitioning as a whole
> depend on that ?

According to Alan it's nearly possible to configure the block layer out 
entirely, which would be a good thing to associate with a CONFIG_DISK option 
too.


Nicolas

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/