On Tue, 6 May 2003 11:48:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-05-05 at 22:08, J�rn Engel wrote:
> >
> > This patch makes a lot of sense in my eyes, but maybe someone
> > disagrees. Applies cleanly to current 2.4.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> MSDOS partitions turn up in lots of places beyond x86 boxes. The
> port maintainers made their decisions for sound reasons
Which were?
My reasons for this patch:
- Even if x86 is not the only platform that uses MSDOS partitions,
this should be a positive list, not a negative list. Else every new
platform has to explicitly express, *not* to use MSDOS partitions.
Seems awkward.
- Any platform needing MSDOS partitions but not explicitly listed can
still turn that option on through the advanced partitioning.
Currently, allnoconfig gives you MSDOS partitioning, which is not very
intuitive.
J�rn
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