I'm in favor of dropping them.  I would be willing to do the cleanup for
that and submit a patch.

Marty 

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Manning [mailto:manningc2@actrix.gen.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:41 AM
To: yaffs@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
Cc: Martin Fouts; coywolf@lovecn.org; fouts@fogey.com
Subject: Time to drop yaffs RAM support in Linux?


On Wednesday 13 July 2005 15:25, Martin Fouts wrote:
>
> But tell me more, because I'm using nandsim with yaffs2 and it seems 
> to be working -- at least for the primitive tests I'm doing.  This is 
> in a
> 2.6.11.12 kernel.
>


At present there are 4 configurations supported in  YAFFS2 for Linux:

yaffs:       YAFFS backward compatability mode with mtd
yaffsram:  YAFFS backward compatability mode with internal RAM simulator
yaffs2:       YAFFS2 mode with 2kpage mtd
yaffs2ram:  YAFFS2 mode with internal RAM simulator

The xxxram versions were really only temporary hacks that were there so
that I could prove yaffs in-kernel without mtd.I also did a really rough
mtd nand simulation to test out the mtd studd.

However, now that things have settled down and the mtd nandsim seems
robust, I would like to suggest pulling out the xxxram variants and just
use nandsim instead.

I would like to clean out dead stuff like this with an eye to cleaning
up code for a kernel integration.

Comments?

-- CHarles