From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:03:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030506150318.C21775@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030506124212.GE15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>; from joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de on Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:42:12PM +0200
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:42:12PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2003 14:28:44 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> >
> > Every platform that supports USB will be able to read USB Storage
> > Devices which almost everytime have FAT filesystems with MSDOS partitions.
> >
> > So short of S/390 you get like every platform.
>
> And short of most embedded systems.
CF cards - these have MSDOS partition tables on. CF cards get used on
embedded systems.
Therefore, it follows that if you have an embedded system with a CF socket,
you'll probably want the MSDOS partitioning enabled.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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2003-05-06 12:28 ` [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86 Marcus Meissner
2003-05-06 12:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 14:03 ` Russell King [this message]
2003-05-06 15:32 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 17:13 ` Russell King
2003-05-06 17:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-05-06 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 18:30 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 18:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-05-06 18:49 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 19:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-05-06 19:20 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 19:54 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 21:01 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-07 7:22 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 7:41 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-07 7:43 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 17:42 ` [PATCH] Only use MS-DOS-Partitions " Riley Williams
2003-05-05 21:08 [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions " Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 12:09 ` Jörn Engel
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