Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261382AbVELJnV (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 05:43:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261378AbVELJnU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 05:43:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:58308 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261370AbVELJnH (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 May 2005 05:43:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support From: David Woodhouse To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Carsten Otte , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20050512085741.GA16361@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <428216DF.8070205@de.ibm.com> <1115828389.16187.544.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <42823450.8030007@freenet.de> <20050512085741.GA16361@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:43:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1115890981.16187.553.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-1.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd > abstraction fit your bill. But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs > could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction. > > Patching jffs2 for xip looks like a major effort, at best, and utterly > insane at worst. I'd prefer not to go down that path. You and me both. The time has definitely come to recognise that JFFS2 needs replacing ;) -- dwmw2 - 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/