+++ Karl Olsen [05-05-25 22:14 +0200]:
> On Friday, May 13, 2005 3:43 AM [GMT+1=CET],
> Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>
> >On Friday 13 May 2005 03:55, Karl Olsen wrote:
>
> >>I am using yaffs on Linux 2.6.11.5, based on the Frank Rowand
> >>patches from 2004-12-16. I was having some problems, so I wanted to
> >>try the current version, fetched as "Download tarball" from
> >>http://www.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yaffs/ . According to
> >>the CVS entries, some things have been fixed since last December.
> >>
> >>But after trying the patch-ker.sh (and adding the real yaffs files to
> >>fs/yaffs and the missing "obj-$(CONFIG_YAFFS_FS) += yaffs/" to
> >>fs/Makefile), it didn't compile at all. It looks like none of the
> >>necessary fixes that Frank Rowand made have been applied to CVS. Is
> >>there an up-to-date version somewhere, or what am I doing wrong?
> >
> >Some of Frank's patches were applied to what was in CVS, but not all.
> >Some were pretty much the same thing done a different way.
>
> I am sorry but I can only find one change related to Frank Rowand, the
> kill_block_super vs. kill_litter_super in yaffs_fs.c. He made many changes
> that were necessary to make the code compile under Linux 2.6. For example,
> he added "#include <linux/config.h>" at the top of many files, and without
> this in yaffs_mtdif.c, the functions in that file would never be compiled at
> all. yaffs_mtdif.c is described as version 1.10, 8 months old (from Sep 19
> 2004). The files under yaffs2/ look similar.
>
> I am looking at the "access the repository over the web"
> (http://www.aleph1.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ ). Are there updated yaffs
> files available elsewhere?
Nope - those are the right version. Looks like Charles has forgotten to
check something in. There are yaffs and yaffs2 modules - it's possible some
changes are in one and not the other?
Thanx for checking up - we should make sure Franks patches don't get lost.
Wookey
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