From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Peter Paul <abnominales@web.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: yaffs2 NAND fs
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:51:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003021451.59773.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267506354.1618.4.camel@virtubuntu>
On Tuesday 02 March 2010, Peter Paul wrote:
> I was wondering why the yaffs2 file system has not gone for mainline
> yet. It's rather popular flash file system in the embedded world, while
> it is rather easy to patch a kernel to have yaffs2 support [1] it would
> be even nicer if it was just in mainline.
> The source of the GPLv2 file system can be found at [2]
>
> [1] http://www.yaffs.net/howto-incorporate-yaffs
> [2] http://www.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yaffs2/
I would guess it's a combination of multiple reasons:
1. It has not been submitted for upstream inclusion, at least not
during the last few years.
2. We don't have a staging area like drivers/staging for file systems
in the way that we have for drivers
3. There is now ubifs and (soon) logfs upstream, both of which appear
to be superior to yaffs in many ways.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 5:05 yaffs2 NAND fs Peter Paul
2010-03-02 13:51 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-03-03 15:09 ` Maxin John
2010-03-04 0:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-03-04 12:34 ` Wookey
2010-03-04 13:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
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