From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefano Babic Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:33:35 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [Yaffs] yaffs2 u-boot patching support In-Reply-To: <201204230823.28547.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> References: <201204161632.07808.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> <20120419214050.GB19686@bill-the-cat> <201204230823.28547.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> Message-ID: <4F95764F.9040807@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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 -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sbabic at denx.de =====================================================================