Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:42:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. |
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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?
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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.
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