Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:52:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. |
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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 <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> > > 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.
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