Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765581AbXFFLea (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:34:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761814AbXFFLeF (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:34:05 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:50245 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761048AbXFFLeC (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 07:34:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:33:51 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jared Hulbert Cc: carsteno@de.ibm.com, Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , richard.griffiths@windriver.com, Richard Griffiths , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP Message-ID: <20070606113351.GA11701@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jared Hulbert , carsteno@de.ibm.com, Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , richard.griffiths@windriver.com, Richard Griffiths , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1179871779.24163.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070522154905.1d7e8a2e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4653F264.1030807@de.ibm.com> <465BB5BA.3050900@yahoo.com.au> <6934efce0706011748p46cf7995vdca0b9cc3f0b06a3@mail.gmail.com> <46612D6F.6000002@yahoo.com.au> <46641472.3080802@de.ibm.com> <6934efce0706060413y6e74512s19d5f468106d4b85@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6934efce0706060413y6e74512s19d5f468106d4b85@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: 622 Lines: 12 I might be a little late in the discussion, but I somehow missed this before. Please don't add this xip support to cramfs, because the whole point of cramfs is to be a simple _compressed_ filesystem, and we really don't want to add more complexity to it. Please use something like the existing ext2 xip mode instead of add support to romfs using the generic filemap methods. - 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/