From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755807AbcEaU7Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2016 16:59:16 -0400 Received: from lists.s-osg.org ([54.187.51.154]:53313 "EHLO lists.s-osg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754608AbcEaU7M (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 May 2016 16:59:12 -0400 Message-ID: <574DFB17.5080904@osg.samsung.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 21:59:03 +0100 From: Luis de Bethencourt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] befs: remove unused endian functions References: <1464701277-29962-1-git-send-email-luisbg@osg.samsung.com> <20160531205455.GE14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20160531205455.GE14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 31/05/16 21:54, Al Viro wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:27:57PM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: >> Remove endianness conversion functions that are declared but never used. > > Well... As long as it stays read-only - sure, you don't need to convert > anything to on-disk types. > Hello, While reading the BeFS book "Practical Filesystems" I have gotten really interested in this and it's why I am reading/learning the Linux implementation. The idea of adding write support has crossed my mind, but I wanted to know if you would be interested in this before I start looking into it. Are you? It would take some time and there are other things to clean in the befs code first though. Thanks, Luis