Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756185AbYGZQsI (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:48:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753020AbYGZQr4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:47:56 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:35508 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752262AbYGZQr4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:47:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:47:18 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. Message-Id: <20080726094718.b617c1e7.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.0; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2186 Lines: 79 On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Use "menuconfig" to allow all advanced partitions to be deselectable > from the top-level FS menu. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Hi, I like the idea, but it does have one problem. Before this patch, if someone disabled PARTITION_ADVANCED, the .config would still contain CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y but after this change, that config line is missing. Not good. > --- > > fs/Kconfig | 4 ---- > fs/partitions/Kconfig | 9 +++++++-- > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig > index 37db79a..f06241f 100644 > --- a/fs/Kconfig > +++ b/fs/Kconfig > @@ -2143,11 +2143,7 @@ config 9P_FS > endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS > > if BLOCK > -menu "Partition Types" > - > source "fs/partitions/Kconfig" > - > -endmenu > endif > > source "fs/nls/Kconfig" > diff --git a/fs/partitions/Kconfig b/fs/partitions/Kconfig > index cb5f0a3..4bb87d2 100644 > --- a/fs/partitions/Kconfig > +++ b/fs/partitions/Kconfig > @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ > # > # Partition configuration > # > -config PARTITION_ADVANCED > - bool "Advanced partition selection" > + > +menuconfig PARTITION_ADVANCED > + bool "Advanced partition support" > help > Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which > were partitioned under an operating system running on a different > @@ -14,6 +15,8 @@ config PARTITION_ADVANCED > > If unsure, say N. > > +if PARTITION_ADVANCED > + > config ACORN_PARTITION > bool "Acorn partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED > default y if ARCH_ACORN > @@ -249,3 +252,5 @@ config SYSV68_PARTITION > partition table format used by Motorola Delta machines (using > sysv68). > Otherwise, say N. > + > +endif # PARTITION_ADVANCED --- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ -- 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/