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
> >
> > 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.

-- Charles