Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265491AbTIJSye (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:54:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265492AbTIJSye (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:54:34 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:22976 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265491AbTIJSya (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:54:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:54:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Hemminger , , Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. In-Reply-To: <20030910181847.GO454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 24 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. Linus - 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/