From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 14:28:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030506122844.95332D872@Hermes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030506120939.GB15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
> 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.
Every platform that supports USB will be able to read USB Storage
Devices which almost everytime have FAT filesystems with MSDOS partitions.
So short of S/390 you get like every platform.
Ciao, Marcus
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 12:17 UTC|newest]
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2003-05-06 12:28 ` Marcus Meissner [this message]
2003-05-06 12:42 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 14:03 ` Russell King
2003-05-06 15:32 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 17:13 ` Russell King
2003-05-06 17:23 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-05-06 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 18:30 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 18:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-05-06 18:49 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 19:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2003-05-06 19:20 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 19:54 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 21:01 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-07 7:22 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 7:41 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-07 7:43 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-06 17:42 ` [PATCH] Only use MS-DOS-Partitions " Riley Williams
2003-05-05 21:08 [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions " Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 12:09 ` Jörn Engel
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