From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mike Frysinger" Subject: Re: YAFFS in the kernel tree? Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 17:24:14 -0400 Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0805281424g2ceae455x774e8d66aba4ec2b@mail.gmail.com> References: <200805290859.54396.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=GQOpP2XceD1iBDt7x2Ho4Llr8U5jRhlQYbd9in3bkUQ=; b=PLJfuxGLMtzzPXxjBvIe9+R1kxZaabXCEKuZSfJcllwcxl3NSsOl2JRxEDiMGTAK6CQzI5Hl+hzF3ypOmChBDyQrSV7zIzZfdxFS5fnwu8HQ+m3k2tPLd0jnuaEmepEuWHJ5mYAXltvvdcGJnDsE22/2pbUFUSmj3e8RtxAx770= In-Reply-To: <200805290859.54396.manningc2-jEEI2ySEPisjAXWc8ALWsQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Charles Manning Cc: linux-embedded-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Charles Manning wrote: > 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). i'm pretty sure you're going to have to cull all of the LINUX_VERSION_CODE checks. that means the in tree yaffs code is only going to track mainline kernel versions. i dont know whether you consider that a pro or con (i say it's a pro), but if you want/need those checks, you're basically going to have to maintain two forked versions ... -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html