Re: [PATCH] FILESYSTEMS: Make "advanced partitions" immediatelyunselectable.

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Sat Jul 26 2008 - 17:54:05 EST


On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:20:49 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >
> > Use "menuconfig" to allow all advanced partitions to be deselectable
> > from the top-level FS menu.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> I like the idea, but it does have one problem. Before this patch,
> if someone disabled PARTITION_ADVANCED, the .config would still
> contain CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y but after this change, that config
> line is missing. Not good.

ah, quite right. the obvious solution is to move MSDOS_PARTITION out
of there since it doesn't even *remotely* qualify as an "advanced"
partition -- it's about as basic as it gets. i'll ponder and
resubmit.

rday
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