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Author: Wookey
Date:  
To: Charles Manning
CC: manningc2, Andre Renaud, yaffs
Subject: [Yaffs] Re: Kernel panic in clear_inode when using yaffs as rootfs
+++ Charles Manning [05-11-14 15:46 +1300]:
> Thanx Andre
>
> FYI: How this got broken: http://lwn.net/Articles/141982/
>
> Makes it easy for OCFS2, breaks YAFFS.


This is a good example of the disadvantages of living outside the mainline.
If we were inside this would probably have got fixed/pointed out for us.

Hopefully the pending MTD changes keeping us out will become a reality soon
and life on the Linux VFS front will get a bit easier.

Wookey
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