linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] befs: remove unused endian functions

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2016 21:59:03 +0100
From:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@....samsung.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] befs: remove unused endian functions

On 31/05/16 21:54, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:27:57PM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>> Remove endianness conversion functions that are declared but never used.
> 
> Well...  As long as it stays read-only - sure, you don't need to convert
> anything to on-disk types.
> 

Hello,

While reading the BeFS book "Practical Filesystems" I have gotten really
interested in this and it's why I am reading/learning the Linux
implementation.

The idea of adding write support has crossed my mind, but I wanted to know
if you would be interested in this before I start looking into it. Are you?

It would take some time and there are other things to clean in the befs code
first though.

Thanks,
Luis