[Yaffs] [Yaffs-archive] Re: How about use YAFFS without MTD under Linux box?

[Charles Manning]

On Saturday 02 August 2003 19:41, guo@unication.com.cn wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>    How about use YAFFS without MTD under Linux box? Because the MTD CVS is
> not stable, so I do not want to use it under Linux. Is it OK?
 
> Best Regards,
> Russell Greece.

You certainly can use YAFFS under Linux without mtd - some people have done 
this already. YAFFS does all its NAND accesses via four functions. If you 
provide functions that access the NAND directly then things will work.

Do I recommend doing this? In general I suggest rather using mtd because it 
adds other capabilities. There are always some reasons in embedded 
development why you want to do things differently.

If you're having problems with mtd, it is likely easier to fix those than 
build your own functions from scratch. I think most mtd problems are not in 
NAND areas.

-- CHarles

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