Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S969210AbXFHQCT (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:02:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757410AbXFHQCI (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:02:08 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.231]:22106 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755433AbXFHQCH (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:02:07 -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=hmIqP/vOwCKFTXJxpKmqsL2kcp8ml2Nx3c8xmY/Aw1hRB8O/bZWVZEoAyKSqolovN3qoqxz8XrQbSZYOFfOzZgFDivwB+QU8BINw5I18ZWqhUlj+OCiwZggjKC9eq/Hz1MByXNe24nJUjtKxI/gOusyAjs0C4MUSwt40V63nqMs= Message-ID: <6934efce0706080902m4d6943d7i23ade1f469a065d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:02:06 -0700 From: "Jared Hulbert" To: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Jared Hulbert" , 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 In-Reply-To: <20070608072824.GA13442@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6934efce0706011748p46cf7995vdca0b9cc3f0b06a3@mail.gmail.com> <46641472.3080802@de.ibm.com> <6934efce0706060413y6e74512s19d5f468106d4b85@mail.gmail.com> <20070606113351.GA11701@infradead.org> <4666DD88.5030708@de.ibm.com> <20070606162305.GA20600@infradead.org> <46683B6A.6030306@de.ibm.com> <20070607193844.GB17144@infradead.org> <6934efce0706071334w54eea3d9mfed1670f527ff831@mail.gmail.com> <20070608072824.GA13442@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 24 On 6/8/07, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:34:12PM -0700, Jared Hulbert wrote: > > >And we'll need that even when using cramfs. There's not way we'd > > >merge a hack where the user has to specify a physical address on > > >the mount command line. > > > > Why not? For the use case in question the user usually manually > > burned the image to a physical address before hand. Many of these > > system don't have MTD turned on for this Flash, they don't need it > > because they don't write to this Flash once the system is up. > > Then add a small device layer for it. Remember that linux is not all > about hacked up embedded devices that get shipped once and never > touched again. Remember that linux is not all about big iron machines with lots of processors and gigabytes of RAM :) I concede your layer point, ioremap() doesn't belong in the filesystem. - 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/