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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:07:16AM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > I estimate something on the order 5-10 million Linux phones use
> > something similar to these patches. I wonder if there are that many
> > provable users of of the simple cramfs. This is where the community
> > has taken cramfs.
>
> This is what a community disjoint to mainline development has hacked
> cramfs in their trees into. Not a good rationale. This whole
> "but we've always done it" attitute is a little annoying, really.

It is that disjointedness we are trying to address.

> FYI: Cartsten had an xip fs for s390 aswell, and that evolved into
> the filemap.c bits after a lot of rework an quite a few round of
> review.

Right. So now we leverage this filemap_xip.c in cramfs. Why is this a problem?

> > Nevertheless, I understand your point. I wrote AXFS in part because
> > the hacks required to do XIP on cramfs where ugly, hacky, and complex.
>
> I can't find a reference to AXFS anywhere in this thread.

No, it's not here. There's a year old thread referencing it.

> > > Please
> > >use something like the existing ext2 xip mode instead of add support
> > >to romfs using the generic filemap methods.
> >
> > What?? You mean like use xip_file_mmap() and implement
> > get_xip_page()? Did you read my latest patch?
>
> Yes. This is the highlevel way to go, just please don't hack it into
> cramfs.

Right, so this latest patch _does_ implement get_xip_page() and
xip_file_mmap(). Why not hack it into cramfs?
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