RE: JFFS2 Support for Large Flash Designs

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:17 -0500, ian@brightstareng.com wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:48, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > SoC devices out of tree are a seperate steaming pile of ... I
> > have seen too many chip vendor kernels explode when you just
> > try to do anything else than run "hello world" on them.
> 
> I agree that this is far from ideal -- I have to deal with this 
> all the time.  But I also appreciate that some vendors do 
> actually bother to contribute some base code to support their 
> designs, even if I have to go in and fix it.
> 
> The vendors need to do better job at establishing a framework to 
> solicit fixes, improvements and new code from their customers, 
> integrate it, and feed it up the tree into the mainline. It is 
> clearly to their benefit.

As well as it would be for out of tree drivers and such. The time people
spend to catch up with mainline to maintain their #ifdef mess would be
much more useful spent when the stuff would be in tree.

	tglx