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SubjectRe: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable.
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > yes, it's nitpicking but, as it's laid out right now, it's
> > unnecessarily confusing and inconsistent. but i don't know if
> > there's a trivial fix for it.
>
> Yes, I'd call MSDOS partitions basic, not Advanced, and then put all
> others under an Advanced menu that can be toggled on/off easily with
> menuconfig.
>
> Not quite trivial, but not messy either.
>
> Patch below. Comments?

... patch snipped ...

i suspect that's as good as it's going to get, but it's unfortunate
that it adds yet another level of submenu under "Partition types."
personally, i was pondering a top level submenu entry of "Advanced
partition types" in which the (non-advanced) MSDOS partition support
was yanked out of there *entirely*.

it strikes me that, at least on x86, MSDOS partition support is so
fundamental that it should take work for someone to turn it *off*.
perhaps simply have it on by default, and force someone to go under
"Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
(CONFIG_EMBEDDED) to make it go away?

seriously, how often is someone going to build a kernel for x86 and
not need MSDOS partition support? just curious.

rday
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