RE: JFFS2 Support for Large Flash Designs

Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07T18:31:08Z

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