From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Martin Schaffner <schaffner@gmx.li>,
Kevin Hilman <kjh@hilman.org>,
bertrand marquis <bertrand.marquis@sysgo.com>
Subject: Re: Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:04:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417170BE.9030906@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041016204001.B20488@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King wrote:
>>Btw. this is not about "case-challenged" filesystems in general. This is
>>about making the kernel usefull out-of-the-box for the increasing
>>embedded market.
>>Less work-around patces needed the better. And these people are often
>>bound to Windoze boxes - for different reasons. And the individual
>>developer may not be able to change this.
Hear, hear!
> You still need a case-sensitive filesystem to be able to create a root
> filesystem for their embedded device.
A case-preserving filesystem should be enough. Or do you have a counterexample?
In any case, when I was building embedded filesystems,
I used an ext2 image file with genext2fs regardless of which operating
system I was running; made it a heck of a lot easier to
do things like create device files.
- Dan
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-16 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 6:03 2.6.8 link failure for sparc32 (vmlinux.lds.s: No such file or directory)? Dan Kegel
2004-09-21 10:50 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-09-21 10:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-22 5:40 ` Dan Kegel
2004-09-24 20:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-07 5:57 ` Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well (was: Re: 2.6.8 link failure for sparc32 (vmlinux.lds.s: No such file or directory)?) Dan Kegel
2004-10-16 21:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-16 19:06 ` Russell King
2004-10-16 21:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-16 19:40 ` Russell King
2004-10-16 19:04 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2004-10-16 22:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-17 16:57 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-10-17 16:42 ` Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well Dan Kegel
2004-10-17 18:29 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-10-17 17:47 ` Dan Kegel
2004-10-17 19:06 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-10-17 19:32 ` Dan Kegel
2004-10-31 21:10 ` Building on case-insensitive systems and systems where -shared doesn't work well (was: Re: 2.6.8 link failure for sparc32 (vmlinux.lds.s: No such file or directory)?) Sam Ravnborg
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