Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 12:33 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
I might be a little late in the discussion, but I somehow missed this
before. Please don't add this xip support to cramfs, because the
whole point of cramfs is to be a simple _compressed_ filesystem,
and we really don't want to add more complexity to it. Please
use something like the existing ext2 xip mode instead of add support
to romfs using the generic filemap methods.
Too late :) The XIP cramfs patch is widely used in the embedded Linux
community and has been used for years. It fulfills a need for a small
XIP Flash file system. Hence our interest in getting it or some
variation into the mainline kernel.


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