From: Richard Griffiths <richard.griffiths@windriver.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>,
carsteno@de.ibm.com, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:17:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181143064.4194.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070606113351.GA11701@infradead.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 22:09 [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP Richard Griffiths
2007-05-22 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-22 22:58 ` Richard Griffiths (wrs)
2007-05-23 7:51 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-23 15:25 ` Richard Griffiths (wrs)
2007-05-24 6:46 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-23 17:21 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-05-24 6:57 ` Carsten Otte
2007-05-29 5:10 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-02 0:48 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-02 8:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-06-04 13:32 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-06 11:13 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 15:17 ` Richard Griffiths [this message]
2007-06-06 15:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 16:09 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 16:07 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 18:26 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 19:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 19:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 20:27 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 7:39 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-07 21:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 21:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 22:59 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 13:19 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-08 13:10 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-06 16:15 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-06 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-06 18:40 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 22:59 ` Matt Mackall
2007-06-07 17:07 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-07 19:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-07 20:34 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 16:02 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 7:17 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 7:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 7:50 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 7:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 7:59 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 8:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 16:05 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 16:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-08 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-08 17:51 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-08 19:04 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 19:06 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-08 19:36 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-09 7:55 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-09 10:37 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-08 23:02 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 21:19 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-06 12:05 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-06 19:01 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-07 1:00 ` Justin Treon
2007-06-13 0:11 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-14 13:57 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-14 16:53 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-15 9:22 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-15 11:49 ` Heiko Carstens
2007-06-15 17:30 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-06-18 7:38 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-15 13:53 ` Carsten Otte
2007-06-15 21:46 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-05-23 8:21 ` Alistair John Strachan
2007-05-24 20:22 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-05-24 20:52 ` Richard Griffiths
2007-05-24 21:21 ` Jared Hulbert
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2007-06-09 8:09 ` Carsten Otte
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