Re: [PATCH] Add endianness support to cramfs tools

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On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:31:44AM +0200, Roy Peled wrote:
> cramfs is an endianness dependent file system.
> So far, the cramfs utilities did not support cramfs
> images of different endianness than the host machine.
> 
> A separate utility, cramfsswap, was required in order
> to change the endianness of the image before and after
> using cramfs utilities. The extra utility introduced
> extra maintenance and an additional step in the process.
> 
> This patch adds endianness support to mkfs.cramfs and
> fsck.cramfs. fsck.cramfs now automatically detects the image
> endianness, and can work on images of either endianness.
> mkfs.cramfs now accepts a new optional parameter (-N) that 
> allows creating the cramfs image in either endianness.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roy Peled <the.roy.peled@xxxxxxxxx>

 Applied, thanks.

 (Please, don't use "multi-part message in MIME format" for patches
  next time...)

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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