From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:36:14 +1000

Note that for the filesystem, we really want to stick to our binary
representation while you really want to stick to your text rep (we
decided to disagree iirc :-) I think we could keep a lot in common still
and just have a mount option to indicate how the file content is
exposed.

I'm fine with that.

It's not really 2.6.22 material as far as I'm concerned as I'm pretty
busy with other things, unless of course Stephen feel like doing it
all :-) I'll see what I can do for the next cycle though.

It would be nice to merge as much of the truly common stuff as
soon as possible.

The sooner I don't have to fix the same bug in multiple locations, the
better :)