Re: YAFFS in the kernel tree?

[Charles Manning <manningc2-jEEI2ySEPisjAXWc8ALWsQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 09:12:40 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Charles Manning wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm the author of YAFFS. This is not in the kernel tree, but is fairly
> > easy to integrate by just pulling a tarball and running  patch-in script.
> >
> > I am curious as to whether people consider the current mechanism "good
> > enough" or whether it is worth the effort trying to get YAFFS into the
> > kernel tree.
> >
> > Pros I can see:
> > * In tree means better testing (maybe).
> > * Keeping current with kernel API changes.
> >
> > Cons:
> > * More effort for YAFFS maintainers (me mostly).
> > * Effort getting code into kernel coding style (unless I can get a waiver
> > on this).
> >
> > Thoughts??
>
> perhaps a dumb question, but does this include YAFFS2 as well?
>

> p.s.  and, no, you don't get a pass on coding style, but others will
> almost certainly help you out there. :-)

That would only be yaffs2 which has yaffs1 backward compatibility built in.

-- CHarles

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