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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807241135540.5289@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:20:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately
 unselectable.


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>

---

 fs/Kconfig            |    4 ----
 fs/partitions/Kconfig |    9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 37db79a..f06241f 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -2143,11 +2143,7 @@ config 9P_FS
 endif # NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS

 if BLOCK
-menu "Partition Types"
-
 source "fs/partitions/Kconfig"
-
-endmenu
 endif

 source "fs/nls/Kconfig"
diff --git a/fs/partitions/Kconfig b/fs/partitions/Kconfig
index cb5f0a3..4bb87d2 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/partitions/Kconfig
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 #
 # Partition configuration
 #
-config PARTITION_ADVANCED
-	bool "Advanced partition selection"
+
+menuconfig PARTITION_ADVANCED
+	bool "Advanced partition support"
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which
 	  were partitioned under an operating system running on a different
@@ -14,6 +15,8 @@ config PARTITION_ADVANCED

 	  If unsure, say N.

+if PARTITION_ADVANCED
+
 config ACORN_PARTITION
 	bool "Acorn partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
 	default y if ARCH_ACORN
@@ -249,3 +252,5 @@ config SYSV68_PARTITION
 	  partition table format used by Motorola Delta machines (using
 	  sysv68).
 	  Otherwise, say N.
+
+endif # PARTITION_ADVANCED

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Robert P. J. Day
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    Have classroom, will lecture.

http://crashcourse.ca                          Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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