Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756715AbXEIKbi (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 06:31:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754925AbXEIKba (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 06:31:30 -0400 Received: from hoefnix.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.54]:57419 "EHLO hoefnix.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754045AbXEIKb2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 06:31:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 12:31:04 +0200 From: Wouter Verhelst To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Philippe De Muyter , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux/m68k , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: retry [PATCH] partition : add support for sysv68 partitions Message-ID: <20070509103104.GA31559@grep.be> References: <20070413135501.GA27439@ingate.macqel.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Speed: Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves. Organization: The Debian Project, http://www.debian.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1737 Lines: 44 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?), I guess so. I have a disk for my MVME167 lying around here somewhere with SYSV/68 on it. If you want, I can verify what exact machines it runs on, but I guess "every 68k MVME" is a safe enough bet. -- Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. - 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/