On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Andi Drebes wrote:
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> This patch introduces the mount option "swapendian" for cramfs.
> When this option is set, cramfs is able to mount an image that
> was created on a machine whose endianness differs from the mounting
> machine's one.

Please don't do it this way.

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. Because nn unconditional byte swap 
is generally faster than a conditional non-byte-swap!

So can you please just make it little-endian? 

There can't be that many big-endian machines that really care about old 
cramfs images..

		Linus
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