* [PATCH] change misleading EFI partition support description
@ 2007-03-15 10:07 Johannes Berg
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From: Johannes Berg @ 2007-03-15 10:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel list; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Grant Grundler, Matt Domsch
This patch removes the misleading "Presently only useful on the IA-64
platform" text from the EFI partition Kconfig.
EFI partitions are also used by Apple on their Intel-based machines and
thus you need EFI partition support if you (for example) want to attach
such a machine in target disk mode.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/partitions/Kconfig 2007-03-15 11:04:20.785467186 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/partitions/Kconfig 2007-03-15 11:05:14.505467186 +0100
@@ -235,5 +235,4 @@ config EFI_PARTITION
select CRC32
help
Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which
- were partitioned using EFI GPT. Presently only useful on the
- IA-64 platform.
+ were partitioned using EFI GPT.
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