[U-Boot] [Yaffs] yaffs2 u-boot patching support

[Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>]

On 22/04/2012 22:23, Charles Manning wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2012 09:40:50 Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 04:32:07PM +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
>>> Hello ubooters and yaffsers
>>>

Hi Charles,

>>> I was commissioned to refresh yaffs2 in u-boot and add a mechanism to
>>> support dynamic yaffs partition set up (way simpler than screwing around
>>> with mtd part) and manual configuration.
>>>
>>>  Rather than do this as a once off, I set this scripting up so that this
>>> can be done at any time (painlessly I hope) to bring in the fresh code
>>> (as per Linux patching).
>>
>> Just to put this out there, if you're not submitting patches to get the
>> code into git, should the current support in-tree be removed?
> 
> I think it is worth having yaffs in the main code base, but not the old stuff.
> 
> The primary reason to have a "patch-in" script is to allow people to refresh 
> the yaffs they are using in a pretty painless way.

Well, why do not push your patches directly to ML ? This increases
surely the number of testers, and after ypur patches will be merged
thare is not need for external scripts.

Stefano

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