From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755996Ab0CDNnb (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:43:31 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:56844 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755843Ab0CDNna convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:43:30 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Wookey Subject: Re: yaffs2 NAND fs Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 14:43:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-19-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20100304123420.GW27571@dream.aleph1.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100304123420.GW27571@dream.aleph1.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <201003041443.14780.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+EIKuhqGwYrvn/DnhO1Iq0qAglV8/X4PFTqLg t40HOCey536ak3tKLn78iCEqnk6giNWzbtbOVcj81jVKfBVbV8 D8mo2k9MHGD6SSxVCXsAg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 04 March 2010, Wookey wrote: > So, I guess this is another kick. I'll update the mainline patch I > have (which is essentially just YAFFS2 with all the "#ifdef kernel > nnn" code taken out, and the YAFFS-direct and ecos and WinCE code > removed, to current kernel (which also means updating balloon3 to current > kernel so I can actually test it). I'll put that in git and ask people > to take a look. Detailed suggestions on what extra info is needed or > changes made would be very helpful. > > Unless of course there is already concensus that this is a waste of > time and Peter and I are the only people that want to see it in > mainline? The bar for getting stuff into the kernel has gotten a lot lower these days, at least for the staging part, see http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/linux-staging-update.html The basic requirement would be that you can get a patch that adds a populated drivers/staging/yaffs2 directory actually builds, ideally even mounts existing file sytem images without crashing every time ;-) >>From there, you can do all the cleanups that are necessary to get it moved to fs/yaffs2, including the stuff you mention above and whatever else comes up (put it into drivers/staging/yaffs2/TODO). Arnd