Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 02 May 2001 10:52:32 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I was looking over the iso9660 code, and noticed that it was doing > endianness conversion via ad hoc *functions*, not even inlines; nor did > it take any advantage of the fact that iso9660 is bi-endian (has "all" > data in both bigendian and littleendian format.) > > The attached patch fixes both. It is against 2.4.4, but from the looks > of it it should patch against -ac as well.
Please beware: There is a can of worms you are openning up here, since there are many broken CD producer programms out there, which only provide the little endian data and incorrect big endian entries. I had some CD's of this form myself. So the endian neutrality of the iso9660 is only in the theory present... - 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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