Messages in this thread | | | From | Marcus Meissner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86 | Date | Tue, 06 May 2003 14:28:44 +0200 |
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> My reasons for this patch: > > - Even if x86 is not the only platform that uses MSDOS partitions, > this should be a positive list, not a negative list. Else every new > platform has to explicitly express, *not* to use MSDOS partitions. > Seems awkward. > > - Any platform needing MSDOS partitions but not explicitly listed can > still turn that option on through the advanced partitioning. > Currently, allnoconfig gives you MSDOS partitioning, which is not very > intuitive.
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.
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