On Sun, 2006-08-01 at 12:21 -0800, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Jon Masters wrote:
>
> > On 1/6/06, Chun Kit Edwin Lau <edwin@micronedge.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have two questions. First, I lost all the files when I
> > umount a
> > > yaffs2 partition. I read somewhere in this mailing list that it was
> > an
> > > known issue from mtd. May I know if there is a quick fix for it?
> > > Second, I tried to dd a file containing all zeros of ~155MB to the
> > > yaffs2 partition.
> >
> > Can we /please/ just get the MTD layer to export some kind of version
> > dependency that YAFFS can use to determine whether it will work
> > against a particular release? It would be simple to then have a
> > blacklist of known-bad MTDs or the reverse (which would be better).
>
> That's easy and doesn't require exporting anything. It does NOT work with
> ANY stock MTD. One patch makes it work with ALL of MTD versions.
>
So where can I find the patch that can fix the problem?
Edwin Lau
> Unfortunately YAFFS guys do NOT want to take this patch, probably because
> I'm not among their favorite worshippers...
>
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