From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:37:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] select EFI partition support by default Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:21, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > + bool "EFI GUID Partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED > > > > + default y if !PARTITION_ADVANCED && IA64 > > > > > > Can we make CONFIG_LBD force on CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION too then? > > > > I know the LBD backport is used with SGI disklabels in production > > enviroments. In fact that's the only production use I know of at > all... > > Besides, unless I'm missing something, current 2.6 doesn't prompt for > LBD for IA64 at all ? > > So, anybody want the patch :) Actually, CONFIG_LBD is not necessary on IA-64. include/linux/types.h: * The type used for indexing onto a disc or disc partition. * If required, asm/types.h can override it and define * HAVE_SECTOR_T */ #ifndef HAVE_SECTOR_T typedef unsigned long sector_t; #endif Since HAVE_SECTOR_T isn't ever defined by IA-64, this does the right thing. -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com