linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86/defconfig: Remove archaic partition tables support

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Date:   Wed, 6 Mar 2019 01:44:25 +0100
From:   "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86/defconfig: Remove archaic partition tables support

On x86 systems, only MSDOS and GPT partition tables are typically
encountered. Remove all the rest.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com>
---

Notes:
    CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is also removed since it defaults to `y'.

 arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig   | 12 ------------
 arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 12 ------------
 2 files changed, 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
index 4bb95d7ad947..838c49a30738 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/i386_defconfig
@@ -25,18 +25,6 @@ CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
-CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
-CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
-CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y
-CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL=y
-CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
 CONFIG_SMP=y
 CONFIG_X86_GENERIC=y
 CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
index 0fed049422a8..05e057efca28 100644
--- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig
@@ -24,18 +24,6 @@ CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
-CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
-CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
-CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y
-CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL=y
-CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_KARMA_PARTITION=y
-CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
 CONFIG_SMP=y
 CONFIG_CALGARY_IOMMU=y
 CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64
-- 
2.21.0