Messages in this thread | | | From | Grant Coady <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediately unselectable. | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:43:09 +1000 |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:42:47 -0400 (EDT), "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>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.
I've been compiling msdos support as modules for ages, and I have one x86 machine here that hasn't referenced an msdos filesystem for over four years ;)
Grant.
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