partitions: add aix lvm partition support files

[karo-tx-linux.git] / block / partitions / Kconfig

diff --git a/block/partitions/Kconfig b/block/partitions/Kconfig
index 75a54e1adbb5b58ea0fa8dfaad2e1ae0cffc30f0..4cebb2f0d2f406d6b11af7aad8e70c3d50bf3232 100644 (file)
--- 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