From: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:10:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42831D97.8000600@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050512085741.GA16361@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Jörn Engel wrote:
> In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd
>
>abstraction fit your bill. But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs
>could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction.
>
>
True. In fact I thought about an mtd device driver for our dcss
segments instead of a block device driver. A filesystem on top
of mtd that implements get_xip_page does the very same job.
But after I decided to build on the ext family, I discarded that
idea because ext does use the block device interface.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-12 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 14:29 [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support Carsten Otte
2005-05-11 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-11 16:35 ` Carsten Otte
2005-05-12 8:57 ` Jörn Engel
2005-05-12 9:10 ` Carsten Otte [this message]
2005-05-12 9:43 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-01 9:33 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-01 11:31 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-01 10:12 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-01 12:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-01 13:39 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-01 14:03 ` Carsten Otte
2005-06-01 14:10 ` Jörn Engel
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