Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> JFFS is host-endian.  If you want to make it swing both ways - feel free,

Please don't.

Dual-endianness is _evil_.

Admittedly host-endian is stupid too, but it's less stupid than being 
dual.

The only sane thing to do is fixed-endianness. I'm sure the m68k people 
remember being forced to fix their ext2 partitions back in the bad old 
days. It's painful once, but after that, fixed-endian is a lot more 
efficient and much simpler to handle.

		Linus

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