[PATCH] partitions: Enhance Kconfig help text for EESOX and MSDOS formats

[PATCH] partitions: Enhance Kconfig help text for EESOX and MSDOS formats

[John Anthony Kazos Jr.]

From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>

Adds help text for ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX and improves help text for 
MSDOS_PARTITION in fs/partitions/Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>

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Applied against Linux v2.6.20.6.

--- linux-2.6.20.6-orig/fs/partitions/Kconfig	2007-04-06 16:02:48.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.20.6-mod/fs/partitions/Kconfig	2007-04-07 13:22:17.000000000 -0400
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ config ACORN_PARTITION_EESOX
 	bool "EESOX partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
 	default y if ARCH_ACORN
 	depends on ACORN_PARTITION
+	help
+	  EESOX SCSI card on-disk partition format support for Acorn
+	  systems. If you have one of these cards, or want to use a disk
+	  written by one, say Y.
 
 config ACORN_PARTITION_ICS
 	bool "ICS partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
@@ -108,7 +112,11 @@ config MSDOS_PARTITION
 	bool "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
 	default y
 	help
-	  Say Y here.
+	  Standard PC-compatible partition table support for Linux. Used by
+	  i386 systems, Linux/Windows dual-boot systems, and many others.
+	  Unless you are certain your system does not use this partition
+	  table format, and you're not using any disks from a system that
+	  does, say Y.
 
 config BSD_DISKLABEL
 	bool "BSD disklabel (FreeBSD partition tables) support"

Re: [PATCH] partitions: Enhance Kconfig help text for EESOX and MSDOS formats

[Andries Brouwer]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:27:09PM -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> From: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
> 
> improves help text for MSDOS_PARTITION in fs/partitions/Kconfig.

> @@ -108,7 +112,11 @@ config MSDOS_PARTITION
>  	bool "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
>  	default y
>  	help
> -	  Say Y here.
> +	  Standard PC-compatible partition table support for Linux. Used by
> +	  i386 systems, Linux/Windows dual-boot systems, and many others.
> +	  Unless you are certain your system does not use this partition
> +	  table format, and you're not using any disks from a system that
> +	  does, say Y.
>  
>  config BSD_DISKLABEL
>  	bool "BSD disklabel (FreeBSD partition tables) support"

This is not an improvement. "Say Y here" is the correct advice
to everybody. In cases where someone does not have any DOS-type
partition tables on his machine, he probably has a digital camera,
or MP3 player or USB stick or other device that uses such partition tables.