Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:03:04 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 11:54:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > > > JFFS is host-endian. If you want to make it swing both ways - feel free, > > Please don't. > > Dual-endianness is _evil_. > > Admittedly host-endian is stupid too, but it's less stupid than being > dual. > > The only sane thing to do is fixed-endianness. I'm sure the m68k people > remember being forced to fix their ext2 partitions back in the bad old > days. It's painful once, but after that, fixed-endian is a lot more > efficient and much simpler to handle.
a) you've snipped the critical part ;-) b) nobody sane uses that beast these days c) if somebody wants to grow a private patch - it's their time, after all...
Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting data from old filesystem. IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go the way of ext and xiafs. He's dead, Jim... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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