Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:14:41 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. |
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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. :)
--- ~Randy Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/
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