Re: [PATCH 0/2] cramfs: Add mount option "swapendian"

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It would be *much* better to just standardize on one endianness, and be 
> done with it. That way there are no config options, no confusion, and the 
> code is smaller, simpler, and faster.

.. it's also statically checkable with tools like "sparse", so it avoids 
bugs not only by being simpler, but by simply being fundamentally more 
robust to start with.

		Linus
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