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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make JFFS2 endianness configurable
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 05:02:36PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
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> 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).
> >
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> 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.

FWIW, can't we detect it at mount time, as e.g. UFS does?

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