Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754623AbYG1DLl (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752160AbYG1DLd (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:33 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:35566 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752094AbYG1DLd (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=WKgeem1TYqz82HH7yHa2bJIwou8Iy41AJzFzzrPGre6PDi2L6chBkhj9v302e8ZhuF PKXjWn2Xg1Y4NVNnkA2wLCMUdGo1et9fQk3q1P5WdHEe9CNdng59v0nF8le+LqzIgLZm 3EU/Q9SOLjiubussV8PdSCw6IXR4db2VS6x3w= Subject: Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. From: Calvin Walton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <20080726094718.b617c1e7.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:29 -0400 Message-Id: <1217214689.22927.3.camel@zem.phub.net.cable.rogers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.23.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 36 On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 17:52 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > 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. > > ah, quite right. the obvious solution is to move MSDOS_PARTITION out > of there since it doesn't even *remotely* qualify as an "advanced" > partition -- it's about as basic as it gets. i'll ponder and > resubmit. It's not that any of the partition types in the menu are advanced - it's that the menu lets an "advanced" user add or remove support for partitions types that are not native to their platform. This is so someone can, say, mount a sparc scsi disk on an x86 box. -- Calvin Walton -- 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/