linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:17:43 -0700
From:	Richard Griffiths <richard.griffiths@...driver.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@...il.com>, carsteno@...ibm.com,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

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.


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