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On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:56, Nick Bane wrote:
> Hi folks,
> There are moves afoot to submit yaffs to mainstream linux. 
> All opinions about suitability/maturity welcome. The kernel 
> mtd layer and yaffs_mtdif have now harmonised so now seems 
> a good moment.

Can we look into use the automatic placement of OOB data. Then it would
be using the same mechanisms as JFFS2 and it would be easy to use YAFFS
on DOC and other devices which cannot use the fixed OOB layout scheme ?

tglx