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From: "Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>
To: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>, "Russell King" <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	"Marcus Meissner" <meissner@suse.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Only use MS-DOS-Partitions by default on X86
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 18:42:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BKEGKPICNAKILKJKMHCAMEMNCKAA.Riley@Williams.Name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305061320080.11648-100000@xanadu.home>

Hi Nicolas.

 >> Maybe introducing a CONFIG_DISK option and making partitioning
 >> as a whole depend on that ?

 > According to Alan it's nearly possible to configure the block
 > layer out entirely, which would be a good thing to associate
 > with a CONFIG_DISK option too.

If we're killing the entire block layer, why call it CONFIG_DISK ???
Surely CONFIG_BLOCK_DEV would be much more appropriate? I certainly
don't think of my SmartMedia flash cards as disks...

Best wishes from Riley.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030505210811.GC7049@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <1052218090.28792.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20030506120939.GB15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-05-06 12:28     ` [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions " Marcus Meissner
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                 ` Riley Williams [this message]

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