[Yaffs-archive] RE: Latest CVS

[Charles Manning]

Thanx Nick

I'll do what you suggest here. That should give people the fast stuff but
still not break people who are not yet up to date.

I will doc what I want to do in YAFFS2 (and why) including ECC placement etc
and ask for input.

Thanx again all...

-- CHarles



-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Bane [mailto:nick@cecomputing.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, 25 November 2002 12:00 p.m.
To: Charles Manning; tglx@linutronix.de; yaffs list
Cc: Jeffrey Lim; manningc2@actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Latest CVS


> My current stuff is built on 2.4.18 (we used that as a springboard for
> YAFFS). Maybe it is time to move and apply mtd patches. Suggestions? I am
a
> bit concerned that moving too fast on mtd might mean that YAFFS would then
> require new features and lose backward compatibility. Thoughts?
>


The newest mtd in cvs seems ideally suited to yaffs and it would be a pity
to not use it. My only problem with the newest mtd api is that it isn't in a
mainstream arm kernel yet. 2.4.19-rmk4 doesn't use the latest read_ecc and
write_ecc api. Can someone (Thomas?) send a patch to Russell for him to
build into rmk5 or something? He was complaining a while back that people
don't feed him stable patches for him to include.

It could be a compile-time option for yaffs with a CONFIG_OLD_MTD_COMPAT
switch that would do it the slow reliable existing way.

Nick




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