Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:14:41 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:02:20 -0400 Calvin Walton wrote:

> 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 :)


Thanks.  I won't bother pushing the latest patch.  :)


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