This is the final patch enabling a user to select AIX lvm partitions
detection.

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <p...@macqel.be>
Cc: Karel Zak <k...@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---
 block/partitions/Kconfig |   11 +++++++++++
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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
-- 
1.7.1

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