Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:54:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > JFFS is host-endian. If you want to make it swing both ways - feel free,
Please don't.
Dual-endianness is _evil_.
Admittedly host-endian is stupid too, but it's less stupid than being dual.
The only sane thing to do is fixed-endianness. I'm sure the m68k people remember being forced to fix their ext2 partitions back in the bad old days. It's painful once, but after that, fixed-endian is a lot more efficient and much simpler to handle.
Linus
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