Wookey wrote: > On 2008-03-10 20:37 +0100, Dirk Behme wrote: > >>Charles Manning wrote: >> >>>Hi All >>> >>>I have entered YAFFS for Google Summer of Code. We'll know in a few days if >>>we're accepted. >>> >>>We have put a preliminary ideas list up at http://www.yaffs.net/ideas-list >>> >>>Any more ideas? If so, please send them to (on or off list) so that I can >>>include them. >> >>One additional: I'm not so familiar with past discussion, but what's >>about doing some work to get YAFFS itself closer to mainline >>integration? Don't know what will be necessary for this though. > > > Whilst this is highly worthwile, it is not really the sort of project > that normally gets SoC approval. SoC is intended to let students learn > to write new code on discrete projects small enough for them to have a > reasonable chance of succeeding. Tarting up existing code to get it > into kernel shape doesn't really count. Hmmh, this depends on a good project description and maybe this slightly changed? See e.g. https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code "Real Time Kernel" part? Dirk > On the subject of actual integration, one of the main things that is > necessary is to get the inband tags code into CVS, because this makes > YAFFS much better-matched to the way MTD in the kernel is headed, and > thus should prevent resistance to it going in. > > Just to note another recent request for kernel inclusion I had OPen > Embedded asking what the chances of YAFFS getting into mainlines were, > as they'd really like it to be much easier for people to just pick > 'YAFFS' when building an OE image. > > Wookey