Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934875AbXFFQJz (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:09:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932560AbXFFQJh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:09:37 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]:47704 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934908AbXFFQJe (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:09:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jPg+MLKECI0K4m4KwP43s7ohBSAm4Wh/1T7ZkTdMRg9/8D0wuhkbE5WNxH9bnvT1FDVmJhJPbNkbKnmlXYA3kbcWt8dbUonXqsnv+TUxbM1V6d5eEyajS4OUdnczyU7giXX78qzUIPcc0cpyeEgGRho24UR3yKbwqAv4SYFoj08= Message-ID: <6934efce0706060909t7fba31e7sdfee7985e8aa3b4f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:09:33 -0700 From: "Jared Hulbert" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Richard Griffiths" , "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 In-Reply-To: <20070606155021.GA19503@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1179871779.24163.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <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> <20070606155021.GA19503@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 959 Lines: 19 On 6/6/07, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. > Please read the entire thread before passing judgements like this. The hacks evolved over the last 8 years, and are really handy. We're just trying to figure the best way to share them.. - 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/