Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932960AbXFFPSm (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:18:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760170AbXFFPSf (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:18:35 -0400 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:59637 "EHLO mail.wrs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759923AbXFFPSe (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:18:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP From: Richard Griffiths Reply-To: richard.griffiths@windriver.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jared Hulbert , carsteno@de.ibm.com, Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070606113351.GA11701@infradead.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> <20070606113351.GA11701@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Linux Products Group Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:17:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1181143064.4194.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Jun 2007 15:17:44.0398 (UTC) FILETIME=[D51156E0:01C7A84D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:33 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. Too late :) The XIP cramfs patch is widely used in the embedded Linux community and has been used for years. It fulfills a need for a small XIP Flash file system. Hence our interest in getting it or some variation into the mainline kernel. - 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/