From 6ceea22bbbc84fcf6bf0913bb3db8a657e9002f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe De Muyter Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 16:01:29 -0700 Subject: partitions: add aix lvm partition support files Add partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c. AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes" which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a slice being a contiguous disk area. The code also detects "logical volumes" made of multiple slices on the probed disk, but can not describe them to the partition layer, because the partition layer generic code does not support that. When such non-contiguous "logical volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is printed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter Cc: Karel Zak Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- block/partitions/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'block/partitions/Kconfig') diff --git a/block/partitions/Kconfig b/block/partitions/Kconfig index 75a54e1..4cebb2f 100644 --- a/block/partitions/Kconfig +++ b/block/partitions/Kconfig @@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ config ACORN_PARTITION_RISCIX of machines called RISCiX. If you say 'Y' here, Linux will be able to read disks partitioned under RISCiX. +config AIX_PARTITION + bool "AIX basic partition table support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED + help + Say Y here if you would like to be able to read the hard disk + partition table format used by IBM or Motorola PowerPC machines + running AIX. AIX actually uses a Logical Volume Manager, where + "logical volumes" can be spread across one or multiple disks, + but this driver works only for the simple case of partitions which + are contiguous. + Otherwise, say N. + config OSF_PARTITION bool "Alpha OSF partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED default y if ALPHA -- cgit v1.1