From: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove if !PARTITION_ADVANCED condition in defaults
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:19:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111231935.GC13442@apps.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411111507090.2301@ppc970.osdl.org>
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:11:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >
> > So, the below advises people "Say Y here" for MSDOS_PARTITION,
> > and does not change the default choices when PARTITION_ADVANCED
> > is selected.
>
> Actually, we should make MSDOS_PARTITION not ask at all, unless
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is set.
I think that is going too far.
It must be possible to deselect it on an old non-i386 machine
without USB, or an old i386 machine with BSD or minix partition
table, or ...
> That way PARTITION_ADVANCED really _does_ mean "do you want some
> additional choices"
That is what it means right now (after my patch).
And one of the additional choices is to deselect MSDOS_PARTITION.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 23:02 [PATCH] remove if !PARTITION_ADVANCED condition in defaults Andries.Brouwer
2004-11-11 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-11 23:19 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2004-11-12 2:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-12 11:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-12 12:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-12 13:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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