Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Charles Manning wrote:
Luckily APIs for drivers (the most common stuff that people work on) don't
change that much, and the interfaces are reasonably clear. If you want some
hell then try working on file systems :-).
Really? So how come so few changes are needed to keep squashfs working?
It only uses a relatively small subset of the VFS, and goes nowhere near
the MTD subsystem. Recently dusting off an MTD patch I wrote for
Squashfs a couple of years ago, I found it had to be completely
rewritten for modern kernels.
Having said that the bit of the VFS Squashfs is interested in has
changed in each of 2.6.23, 2.6.24, 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and now 2.6.27, and so
I wouldn't say it was immune anyway.
Phillip
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