linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make JFFS2 endianness configurable

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Date:   Thu, 1 Nov 2018 17:02:36 -0700
From:   Daniel Walker <danielwa@...co.com>
To:     Nikunj Kela <nkela@...co.com>
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, xe-linux-external@...co.com,
        Rod Whitby <rod@...tby.id.au>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make JFFS2 endianness configurable

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 03:56:03PM -0700, Nikunj Kela wrote:
> This patch allows the endianness of the JFSS2 filesystem to be
> specified by config options.
> 
> It defaults to native-endian (the previously hard-coded option).
> 
> Some architectures benefit from having a single known endianness
> of JFFS2 filesystem (for data, not executables) independent of the
> endianness of the processor (ARM processors can be switched to either
> endianness at run-time).
> 

The description is pretty sad .. We have a product which we released that uses
JFFS2, and that product was release with a kernel in one endianness. Then later
on we decided to change the endianness and now we're stuck with a JFFS2
partition that has the wrong endiannes, in a released product. This patch allows
us to set the endianness to something different from the architecture setting.

So there a significant use case for the change, at least for Cisco.

Daniel