From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760836Ab0J1R6U (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:58:20 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:34686 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755325Ab0J1R6O (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:58:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC9B9A9.20904@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:58:01 -0700 From: Corey Ashford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Manning CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How do I add yaffs file system to mainline? References: <201010281308.16774.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> In-Reply-To: <201010281308.16774.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/27/2010 05:08 PM, 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/ > > 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? I'd say you need to post a series of incremental patches which introduces this filesystem, why the kernel should have it, why people would want it, etc. For lots more details, you should take a look at the files in Documentation/development-process in the kernel source tree. -- Regards, - Corey Corey Ashford Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain Beaverton, OR cjashfor@us.ibm.com