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From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:52:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEFCAD0.BE2A5FA@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AEE4A06.3666F4BE@transmeta.com>

"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I was looking over the iso9660 code, and noticed that it was doing
> endianness conversion via ad hoc *functions*, not even inlines; nor did
> it take any advantage of the fact that iso9660 is bi-endian (has "all"
> data in both bigendian and littleendian format.)
> 
> The attached patch fixes both.  It is against 2.4.4, but from the looks
> of it it should patch against -ac as well.

Please beware: There is a can of worms you are openning up here, 
since there are many broken CD producer programms out there, which
only provide the little endian data and incorrect big endian
entries. I had some CD's of this form myself. So the endian neutrality
of the iso9660 is only in the theory present...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-02  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-01  5:30 iso9660 endianness cleanup patch H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01  6:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-01  6:18   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01 20:21     ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-04  1:51       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-04  4:59         ` Mike Galbraith
2001-05-01  6:37   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-05-01  9:52 ` Tim Riker
2001-05-02  8:52 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2001-05-02 16:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-03 21:59   ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-01 14:40 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-05-01 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01 18:43   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01 20:44   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 20:59   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-01 21:06     ` H. Peter Anvin

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