From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>, "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 MS-DOS-Partitions by default on X86
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 18:42:47 +0100
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Hi Nicolas.

 >> 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.

If we're killing the entire block layer, why call it CONFIG_DISK ???
Surely CONFIG_BLOCK_DEV would be much more appropriate? I certainly
don't think of my SmartMedia flash cards as disks...

Best wishes from Riley.
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