Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752640AbYG1WCt (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751013AbYG1WCh (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:37 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.179]:14847 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751247AbYG1WCg (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:36 -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=gA9kVU9IWPM1EMGNO2s7xmv6Y05NPK6orV+0RHpFLc+0pHj5x8VzLgZzaeeBSszNo1 pM53cKw19sOB3nyBwvDEQG7XfwWxzmsi1nph66RVUhZXwL4n+v6uPmzxJNweIm2slXJz vJ+se37sfDFYqtmyKZVdlPsyk9Vh5m6Hihyhk= 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> <1217214689.22927.3.camel@zem.phub.net.cable.rogers.com> <20080728103731.7bafd577.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:20 -0400 Message-Id: <1217282540.22927.13.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: 1528 Lines: 36 On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:42 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: > it strikes me that, at least on x86, MSDOS partition support is so > fundamental that it should take work for someone to turn it *off*. > perhaps simply have it on by default, and force someone to go under > "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" > (CONFIG_EMBEDDED) to make it go away? > > seriously, how often is someone going to build a kernel for x86 and > not need MSDOS partition support? just curious. > > rday Naturally, on an architecture other than x86 (e.g. sparc) you'll want to ensure that the platform's native partitioning format (for sparc, SUN_PARTITION) is similarly on by default, and difficult to unselect. In this case, you could get by perfectly without msdos partitions enabled (although the default is still to enable them), unless you want to read a usb key or something. This was the point of the original menu, I think - it allowed each partition type to have a default based on arch, but to hide away the mess of other types unless you feel like overriding it. You'll want to make sure in your patch that arches other than x86 don't lose their own native partitioning types :) -- 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/