Re: [PATCH] Make JFFS2 endianness configurable

[Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 3:04 PM Daniel Walker <danielwa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you have any thought on how to implement it ? I was think abstracting the
> endian functions in the nodelist.h

Yes, see what UFS does.

> static inline jint16_t cpu_to_je16(jint16_t x) {
>         if (check_big_endian()) {
>                 return cpu_to_be16(x);
>         } else if (check_little_endian()) {
>                 return cpu_to_le16(x);
>         }
> }
>
> but how would you setup the checking ?

Make it a mount option and store the endianness mode in the super block.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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