From: John Bowler Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:37:06 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ixp4xx-kernel: add comment to jffs2 patch in 2.6.15 X-Git-Tag: Release-2010-05/1~9453^2~2667 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a066b8ec9a680169470348b674b7c57b50f4e29;p=openembedded.git ixp4xx-kernel: add comment to jffs2 patch in 2.6.15 --- diff --git a/packages/linux/ixp4xx-kernel/2.6.15/15-jffs2-endian-config.patch b/packages/linux/ixp4xx-kernel/2.6.15/15-jffs2-endian-config.patch index fdebb652a7..76e9c7e439 100644 --- a/packages/linux/ixp4xx-kernel/2.6.15/15-jffs2-endian-config.patch +++ b/packages/linux/ixp4xx-kernel/2.6.15/15-jffs2-endian-config.patch @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +This patch allows the endianness of the JFSS2 filesystem to be +specified by config options. + +It defaults to native-endian (the previously hard-coded option). + +Some architectures (in particular, the NSLU2) benefit from having a +single known endianness of JFFS2 filesystem (for data, not +executables) independent of the endianness of the processor (ARM +processors can be switched to either endianness at run-time). + +Signed-off-by: Rod Whitby + --- linux-2.6.15/fs/Kconfig~ 2006-01-03 13:51:10.000000000 +1030 +++ linux-2.6.15/fs/Kconfig 2006-01-05 01:35:36.000000000 +1030 @@ -1132,6 +1132,31 @@ config JFFS2_CMODE_SIZE