Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:19:35 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove if !PARTITION_ADVANCED condition in defaults |
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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.
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