[Yaffs] Re: cvs YAFFS + MTD cvs + 2.4.27-vrs1 problems

[Wookey]

+++ Nick Bane [04-12-09 21:10 -0000]:
> > I am guessing that the ECC stuff is being handled twice or it is being 
> > mishandled somewhere when I define CONFIG_YAFFS_USE_NANDECC. Comments?
> > 

> That is precisely what I do and I comment out the MTD whinge. It is
> clearly important that SOMEONE does the ECC and it is a mild pity that the
> MTD layer assumes that only it is competant to do so.
> 

> It is probably that yaffs should get the MTD layer to do its ecc
> eventually as standard.

That's OK for use with linux and the MTD, but yaffs needs to be able to run
standalone so it needs to retain the ability to do it's own ECC.

Wookey
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