Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. | From | Calvin Walton <> | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:29 -0400 |
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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 <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.
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 <calvin.walton@gmail.com>
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