Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754347AbXEIHsH (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:48:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751750AbXEIHrz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:47:55 -0400 Received: from hoboe2bl1.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.73]:54201 "EHLO hoboe2bl1.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751555AbXEIHry (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 03:47:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:47:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Philippe De Muyter Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux/m68k , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: retry [PATCH] partition : add support for sysv68 partitions In-Reply-To: <20070509072422.GA13119@ingate.macqel.be> Message-ID: References: <20070413135501.GA27439@ingate.macqel.be> <20070509072422.GA13119@ingate.macqel.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2456 Lines: 65 On Wed, 9 May 2007, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:21:12PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > 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' I prefer `default y if VME'. BTW, perhaps PPC based Motorola MVME boards use SYSV68 partition tables, too? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/