Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:11:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:11:45 -0400 Received: from warden-p.diginsite.com ([208.29.163.248]:57818 "HELO warden.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:11:43 -0400 From: David Lang To: "David S. Miller" Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, dalecki@evision-ventures.com, rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 In-Reply-To: <20020416.100055.59660513.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I could be wrong, it's a 2.1.x kernel that they started with. I thought that was around the time the fix went in. David Lang On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:00:55 -0700 (PDT) > From: David S. Miller > To: david.lang@digitalinsight.com > Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, dalecki@evision-ventures.com, rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca, > torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 IDE 36 > > From: David Lang > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:04:02 -0700 (PDT) > > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Because for Linux filesystems it was decided some time ago (after people > > HAD huge byteswap problems) that ext2 is always LE, etc, etc. So > > filesystems are supposed to be the same on every system. > > In the case of Tivo they are useing a kernel from the time before the fix > went in so even their ext2 partitions are incorrect (not to mention their > other partitions that aren't ext2) > > That's absurd. I made the fix 6 years ago, I doubt they are using a > kernel older than that. > - 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/