Re: [PATCH] Endianness-aware mkcramfs

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:12:33 +0000


Hi!

> > > As told above, it could be cleaner, but I don't know of a nice method of
> > > accessing byteorder dependent data through structures.
> >
> > This isn't the right way to deal with this. The right way to deal
> > with this is to get all systems to read cramfs the same way.
>
> Yes, from a CS point of view.
>
> But practically cramfs is created once to contain some kind of
> ROM for embedded devices. So if we never modify these data again,
> why not creating it in the required byte order?

Because you want to be able to mount cramfs from your devel machine.

Or imagine putting cramfs on a CD.
Pavel

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