[Yaffs] [PATCH] kernel source patchin script, version 2

Coywolf Qi Hunt coywolf at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 03:51:48 BST 2005


On 7/12/05, marty <Martin.Fouts at palmsource.com> wrote:
> I've taken a look at Coywolf Qi Hunt's patch and I think it's fine,
> but it's not really what we need here, becasue it contains
> a very large number of whitespace changes and a small number of
> bug fixes, it's not quiet up to date with the YAFFS2 cvs tree,

The patch was based on the 2005-06-01 CVS.
After that, only "Allow use of page zero" was committed

> and it is difficult to compare the two because of all the
> white space changes.  (I believe that Coywolf is going in
> the right direction for kernel acceptance, but it's too large
> a step to take at once, for us.)
> 
> Anyway, I've redone my patch-in script, which is more along the
> lines of the mtd patchin script. In the process, I fixed a few
> odd things to make gcc stop complaining about various warnings
> and I got it to the point where it will build as either a
> module or an in-kernel bit.
> 
> I've simplified the configuration a bit.  Because mtd now
> has a nand emulator, I didn't include options to build the

mtd nand emulator, nandsim, isn't actually usable for yaffs2 due to
some mtd limitations at present.

> ram simulator, for instance, and I left out options that
> we'll never use here; although they'd be easy to add in.
> 

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Coywolf Qi Hunt
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