On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:46:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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. We can do proper typechecking with sparse even for dual-endian filesystems, see ufs and sysvfs for example. And yes, for a new filesystems I'd always chose one endianes and stick to it, but becase I certain someone forgot that when creating cramfs we're stuck now :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
