Re: [RFC 0/5] fix data+OOB writes, add ioctl

Artem Bityutskiy
2011-08-25T07:20:06Z

On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 11:01 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Ricard Wanderlof
> <ricard.wanderlof@axis.com> wrote:
> ...
> > I had a problem
> > in that in the mtdchar.c I have it looks like this:
>
> Did you mean nand_base.c?
>
> > whereas your patch looks like it was made against a version which lacks the
> > memsets. First I thought it was because I was running an older kernel
> > (2.6.35), but I looked at HEAD of the linux-2.6 and mtd-2.6 trees at
> > git.infradead.org, and it's the same there. So I'm not sure exactly which
> > version your patch was made against. Perhaps it's obvious to someone but not
> > me right now.
>
> My patches were based on l2-mtd-2.6.git, actually. David Woodhouse
> rarely pulls patches into his mtd-2.6 tree, so I have moved to working
> with Artem's l2-mtd-2.6 tree, where all the MTD work that's waiting
> for upstream sits (some stuff's been there since May). This is not
> obvious, and usually when it matters, I try to mention it in the patch
> summaries.

David's tree is desperately out-of-date now, I did not talk to him
lately, he is not very reachable now.

There are patches from May because David did merge anything this merge
window, probably he had some issues/etc, let's hope he'll merge
everything next merge window. May be he wanted to ask me to merge it,
but I have been having vacation and was not available at the IRC chat.

> Artem: is there any official change in policy on patch submission? I
> see documentation that says to base off mtd-2.6.git, but I've been
> using l2-mtd-2.6 to help you avoid merge conflicts:
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/source.html

There is no official policy, this all works because enthusiasts who just
like MTD stuff and keep it alive. When I noticed that dwmw2 does not
give MTD ML enough attention, I just started my l2 tree to help him - it
was faster/easier for him to look with reviewed patches in my tree
rather than look through whole MTD ML, find out which acks/reviewed-by
to add and where, which patch versions are out of date, etc.

At this point I think, that you have to use the l2 tree, because David's
tree is very out-of-date. Also, beware that the l2 tree is currently in
linux-next.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy