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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:42:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030506124212.GE15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030506122844.95332D872@Hermes.suse.de>

On Tue, 6 May 2003 14:28:44 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 
> 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.

And short of most embedded systems.

Wouldn't it make more sense to add USB to the positive list then?

(There is still the alternative in the back of my head, to add all the
mainly embedded cpus to the current negative list, until more people
agree that it is ugly.;)

Jörn

-- 
If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach,
you can almost always do something better.
-- John Carmack

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ 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 by default on X86 Marcus Meissner
2003-05-06 12:42       ` Jörn Engel [this message]
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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