Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765554AbXFFPum (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:50:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760857AbXFFPue (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:50:34 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45751 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751098AbXFFPud (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:50:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:50:21 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Richard Griffiths Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jared Hulbert , carsteno@de.ibm.com, Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP Message-ID: <20070606155021.GA19503@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Richard Griffiths , Jared Hulbert , carsteno@de.ibm.com, Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , 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> <20070606113351.GA11701@infradead.org> <1181143064.4194.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1181143064.4194.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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: 697 Lines: 13 On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:17:43AM -0700, Richard Griffiths wrote: > 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. That's not a reason to put it in as-is. Maybe you should have showed up here before making the wrong decision to hack this into cramfs. - 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/