[U-Boot] Pull request: Integrate latest yaffs2

[Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>]

On 04/25/2012 03:28 PM, Charles Manning wrote:
> On Thursday 26 April 2012 10:21:37 Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:08:42AM +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 24 April 2012 08:58:09 you wrote:
>>>> Dear Charles Manning,
>>>>
>>>> In message<201204231346.32195.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>  you wrote:
>>>>> I recently sent a message to the list announcing a method for
>>>>> patching in the latest yaffs2.
>>>>>
>>>>> u-boot updated with the latest yaffs2 can be pulled from
>>>>> git at github.com:cdhmanning/u-boot-yaffs2.git
>>>>
>>>> Please read http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches and post proper
>>>> patch(es) for review.
>>>
>>> At least one of the files exceeds the 100k patch limit.
>>>
>>> I know you'd like patches, but there are two really easy options for
>>> someone on the inside to do this:
>>>
>>> 1) Run the script off the yaffs git
>>> -or-
>>> 2) Merge from the https://github.com/cdhmanning/u-boot-yaffs2
>>
>> So this means things have gotten really far out of sync.  Would you be
>> willing to say that in the future you'll be submitting regular well
>> formatted and broken down patches like I assume you do in the yaffs2
>> tree itself so we can avoid this in the future?
>
> yaffs went through a large reformat a while ago meaning that the current code
> does not diff well against the old code. Future changes shuld be a lot easier
> to handle with direct patching.
>
> yaffs changes typically don't go through the yaffs  list since people with
> direct git checkin access do 95-99% of the changes.

Right, but a proper set of individual patches could be posted and 
reviewed in the future, yes?

-- 
Tom