Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265567AbTIJTFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:05:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265545AbTIJTE3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:04:29 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:28385 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265530AbTIJTDG (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:03:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:03:04 +0100 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Hemminger , jffs-dev@axis.com, Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. Message-ID: <20030910190303.GP454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030910181847.GO454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1214 Lines: 31 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/