Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759490AbXEVW7X (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:59:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756302AbXEVW7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:59:16 -0400 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:33529 "EHLO mail.wrs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755362AbXEVW7P (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 18:59:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP From: "Richard Griffiths (wrs)" Reply-To: richard.griffiths@windriver.com To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carsten Otte In-Reply-To: <20070522154905.1d7e8a2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1179871779.24163.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070522154905.1d7e8a2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Linux Product Development Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:58:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1179874709.17209.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 May 2007 22:58:30.0307 (UTC) FILETIME=[B71E0730:01C79CC4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 27 On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:49 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:09:39 -0700 > Richard Griffiths wrote: > > > Venerable cramfs fs Linear XIP patch originally from MontaVista, used in > > the embedded Linux community for years, updated for 2.6.21. Tested on > > several systems with NOR Flash. PXA270, TI OMAP2430, ARM Versatile and > > Freescale iMX31ADS. > > It's good to see some of these secret embedded patches heading in > the mainline direction. > > But we'd expected and hoped that flash-based XIP would be able to use > the existing xip infrastructure, in mm/filemap_xip.c. Not possible? I don't know I'll look into it and see if it is possible. > > The de-constification of cramfs_ops and cramfs_dir_inode_operations > was, I assume, a mistake? oops. Yes, Thanks Andrew. Richard - 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/