On Sunday 21 June 2009, Marco wrote: > I was thinking about your comment and I think I'll use __kernel_off_t > for the exported headers. I know that it will differ between 32 and 64 > bit architectures, but for this kind of fs there isn't any compatibility > problem at layout level. You cannot remove a chip of RAM from a board > 32bit little endian and attach it to a board with a cpu 64bit big > endian, the memory isn't a disk. Indeed, I see that tmpfs uses simply > "unsigned long" in the exported header file without any problems to > little or big endian. It's still a problem. You might be creating a file system image for an embedded board with a different endianess. Or even on the same machine, you could be looking at the file system contents with a 32 bit process running on a 64 bit kernel. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
