linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable.

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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:11:29 -0400
From:	Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@...il.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately
 unselectable.

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@...shcourse.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@...il.com>

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