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

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Date:	Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:16:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>,
	Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	7eggert@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately 
 unselectable.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> --- Original Message ---
> > Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't see the "if PARTITION_ADVANCED" block as being compatible with the
> > > need to have default partition types per $ARCH.
> > > Do you see some way around that problem?
> > 
> > You need menuconfig_usedefaults.
> 
> Where is that?

Currently nowhere, it's just my idea of how to solve the problem.
It would be a variant of KConfig's menuconfig option, having the desired
behaviour.

Unfortunately I don't have time to implement that, especially since I don't 
know that part of the code. The last few weeks, I was barely able to
assemble my new desk.
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