On Sunday 14 August 2005 15:35, Charles Manning wrote:
> Right now there is a major code clean up etc underway. This
> should be completed in the next few days.
>
> At present there is a small issue with the mtd interface and
> the way it handles read_oob (it does this raw instead of doing
> AUTOPLACE). When the new AUTOPLACE mechanism is in place, then
> YAFFS will use that mechanism in preference to yaffs_Spare.
> This should make things a lot cleaner.
>
> This is high priority on the YAFFS side and (hopefully) on the
> mtd side.  I expect this issue to be resolved before the end
> of this month. In the mean time, you'll just need to hack
> either YAFFS or the mtd to get what you need.

Does anyone hold out hope that the changes required to fixup
MTD would ever make into a version that's usable with a 2.4 
kernel?  See 
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/source.html#kernelversions

If necessary, and I'm sure it will be, can we put together an
MTD patch that will fix this 'small issue'.  The MTD hack I
sent to this list illustrated the problem, but it does not
provide a general solution.

-imcd