Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968781AbXEIHYf (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:24:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967942AbXEIHYZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:24:25 -0400 Received: from mail.macqel.be ([194.78.208.39]:1443 "EHLO mail.macqel.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967810AbXEIHYY (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:24:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:24:22 +0200 From: Philippe De Muyter To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux/m68k , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: retry [PATCH] partition : add support for sysv68 partitions Message-ID: <20070509072422.GA13119@ingate.macqel.be> References: <20070413135501.GA27439@ingate.macqel.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1966 Lines: 56 Hi Geert, On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:21:12PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Philippe, > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > > Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition table (slices in motorola > > doc). > > > > Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter > > > > diff -r 1b54f1d81bc5 fs/partitions/Kconfig > > --- a/fs/partitions/Kconfig Thu Apr 12 15:44:52 2007 -0700 > > +++ b/fs/partitions/Kconfig Fri Apr 13 15:51:58 2007 +0200 > > @@ -236,3 +236,12 @@ config EFI_PARTITION > > help > > Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which > > were partitioned using EFI GPT. > > + > > +config SYSV68_PARTITION > > + bool "SYSV68 partition table support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED > > + default y if M68K > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > + help > > + Say Y here if you would like to be able to read the hard disk > > + partition table format used by Motorola Delta machines (using > > + sysv68). > > + Otherwise, say N. > > Bummer, I saw your patch before, but I never noticed the `default y if M68K'. > > Can you please tell me on which platforms SYSV68 partition tables are commonly > used (I guess the Motorola MVME boards?), so we can enable it by default on a The Motorola VME boards are the only ones I am aware of. I must also add that the partitions themselves are sysv partitions. > more sensible subset of M68K? Feel free to replace or suppress the `default' directive. I actually wrote that for a i586 laptop to access/reinstall disks of sysV68 machines using a USB/SCSI adapter, but I don't think `default y' is a good idea :). What do you think of `default y if VME' or `default y if M68K && SYSV_FS' Best regards Philippe - 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/