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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: 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 MSDOS-Partitions by default on X86
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:23:21 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305061320080.11648-100000@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030506181346.C15174@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 05:32:52PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > Maybe I was just thinking the wrong way. Given that my systems don't
> > use IDE, SCSI, a floppy or anything emulating one of them, like USB
> > storage or CF. I don't want MSDOS partitioning, but in fact, I don't
> > want any of the disk-centric code at all, fs/partitions is just a part
> > of that.
> 
> 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.


Nicolas


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06 17:10 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
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 [this message]
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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