From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263732AbTEFNvq (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 09:51:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263725AbTEFNu7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 09:50:59 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:22287 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263726AbTEFNuw (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 09:50:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 15:03:18 +0100 From: Russell King To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= Cc: Marcus Meissner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only use MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86 Message-ID: <20030506150318.C21775@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , Marcus Meissner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030505210811.GC7049@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <1052218090.28792.15.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030506120939.GB15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030506122844.95332D872@Hermes.suse.de> <20030506124212.GE15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030506124212.GE15261@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>; from joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de on Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:42:12PM +0200 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vulnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:42:12PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > 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. CF cards - these have MSDOS partition tables on. CF cards get used on embedded systems. Therefore, it follows that if you have an embedded system with a CF socket, you'll probably want the MSDOS partitioning enabled. -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html