Re: How do I add yaffs file system to mainline?

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:15:59AM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> On 10/28/2010 10:49 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:41:13AM +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> >>On Friday 29 October 2010 06:26:41 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>>On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:55:02 +1300 Charles Manning wrote:
> >>>>YAFFS has been used for many years as a third-party patch-in.
> >>>>
> >>>>I have recently been through the exercise of changing all the symbols to
> >>>>be more kernel friendly with the intention of mainlining into the linux
> >>>>tree.
> >>>>
> >>>>The code is in git at
> >>>>http://github.com/cdhmanning/linux-yaffs-integration/
> >>>
> >>>It's difficult to review&  comment on a git tree.
> >>>We prefer patches via email for review.
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks to CELF and Google for sponsoring the effort so far.
> >>>>
> >>>>What still needs to be done to mainline this?
> >>>>Who do I need to approach?
> >>>
> >>>Either ask Stephen Rothwell to add the git tree to the linux-next daily
> >>>tree or ask Greg KH to add it to the drivers/staging/ area.
> >>
> >>Hi Randy
> >>
> >>Thanks for the response.
> >>
> >>At this stage I'm hoping for some high level feedback about code layout etc.
> >>and don't expect an immediate approval. I expect to do some further code
> >>cleansing before getting a green light.
> >>
> >>We're talking around 15k lines of code. Is a huge patch set the right way?
> >>  I thought it would be more polite to invite people to look at git, rather
> >>than filling everyone's inboxes.
> >
> >Have you read Documentation/SubmittingPatches and
> >Documentation/development_process/ which explains how to break up your
> >code and send it out for review properly?
> >
> >No one is going to look at a random git tree with 15k lines of code for
> >a review, sorry.  Would you?
> >
> 
> The vast majority of the changes are just adding new files.  All
> Those can be found in:
> 
> http://github.com/cdhmanning/linux-yaffs-integration/tree/yaffs-integration/fs/yaffs2/

How can one easily write an email response to any code in a git tree?

> That said, one could imagine a scenario where a single patch was
> created that added the contents of that directory.  That patch could
> then be send to the relevant mailing lists as several people have
> pointed out.

Yes, that is what needs to be done, and is what happens for all other
kernel code, why would this be an exception?

> Certainly replying to a patch submission e-mail is much closer to
> the standard kernel development process than trying to comment on
> files in some random git tree.

Exactly.