diff --git a/block/partitions/msdos.c b/block/partitions/msdos.c
index 9bf19e6fd949..9123f250b425 100644
--- a/block/partitions/msdos.c
+++ b/block/partitions/msdos.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "check.h"
 #include "msdos.h"
 #include "efi.h"
+#include "aix.h"
 
 /*
  * Many architectures don't like unaligned accesses, while
@@ -462,8 +463,12 @@ int msdos_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
 	 */
 	if (aix_magic_present(state, data)) {
 		put_dev_sector(sect);
+#ifdef CONFIG_AIX_PARTITION
+		return aix_partition(state);
+#else
 		strlcat(state->pp_buf, " [AIX]", PAGE_SIZE);
 		return 0;
+#endif
 	}
 
 	if (!msdos_magic_present(data + 510)) {