Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:50:21 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove if !PARTITION_ADVANCED condition in defaults |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Nov 11, 2004, at 18:11, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That's really what EMBEDDED means: ask about things that no sane person > > would leave out. So how about just changing that "if PARTITION_ADVANCED" > > into "if EMBEDDED" on MSDOS? > > If you make this specific to x86, that _may_ be OK, but I suspect others who > only have only BSD partitioning schemes may object.
Please do at least that! If a (non-ia32) machine doesn't have USB or FireWire, it usually doesn't need MS-DOS partitioning. This patch makes it impossible for people to leave out some stuff (BTW not limited to MS-DOS partitioning) they don't want. I guess Matt will be happy to add the inverse patch to -tiny...
Andries wrote: > Many people are being bitten by the fact that if they select > CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED in order to get some additional support, > they suddenly lose support for the MSDOS_PARTITION type.
Are you sure Kconfig won't keep the old setting of MSDOS_PARTITION? Ah IC, this is for people who start from a brand new empty config, willing to solve the Kernel Quest with the 100000 Kconfig questions(TM) :-)
This looks like yet another fix for yet another PEBKAC problem... Will (or perhaps this has been done already as well) we hardcode IDE to yes (on ia32)?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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