From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corey Ashford Subject: Re: How do I add yaffs file system to mainline? Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:58:01 -0700 Message-ID: <4CC9B9A9.20904@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <201010281308.16774.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Charles Manning Return-path: Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:34686 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755325Ab0J1R6O (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:58:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201010281308.16774.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/27/2010 05:08 PM, Charles Manning wrote: > YAFFS has been used for many years as a third-party patch-in. > > I have recently been through the exercise of changing all the symbols to be > more kernel friendly with the intention of mainlining into the linux tree. > > The code is in git at http://github.com/cdhmanning/linux-yaffs-integration/ > > Thanks to CELF and Google for sponsoring the effort so far. > > What still needs to be done to mainline this? > Who do I need to approach? I'd say you need to post a series of incremental patches which introduces this filesystem, why the kernel should have it, why people would want it, etc. For lots more details, you should take a look at the files in Documentation/development-process in the kernel source tree. -- Regards, - Corey Corey Ashford Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain Beaverton, OR cjashfor@us.ibm.com