Hello Sergey,
I'm afraid I haven't got your allusions... Anyway, you might want to
learn more about main principles of modularity.
Best regards,
Vitaly
Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Vitaly Wool wrote:
>
>Guys, can you explain what is the need for such a change in the first place?
>Another round of confusion? Forcing everybody to upgrade their painfully
>crafted kernels (your CVS version won't apply to e.g. 2.6.12 kernel that was
>the last one before rather major change in ARM architecture, will it?)?
>
>Why don't just fix YAFFS2 itself to make it work with a stock kernel? It's
>easy to do and the appropriate patch is out for quite a long time, tested
>and works for everyone. Patch for YAFFS2 it is, not for kernel.
>
>Occam was a wise man so it does make sence to use his razor... Belly cover
>weared without a need is harmful (C) K.Prutkov ....
>
>
>
>>Hi Charles,
>>
>>no it's not yet in CVS. I think I'll be able to commit it if we get any
>>positive feedback on this patch (i. e. if it's actually working for
>>anyone else than me :))
>>As for write_oobfree, it looks to be useful for JFFSx to stop messing
>>with oobinfos in JFFSx code.
>>
>>Best regards,
>> Vitaly
>>
>>Charles Manning wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Friday 27 January 2006 01:51, Vitaly Wool wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi Yuri,
>>>>
>>>>well, lemme just summarize what you hafta do in order to make YAFFS2
>>>>work with my patches.
>>>>
>>>>1. Apply the following patch to the mtd code:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-December/014648.html
>>
>>
>>>>(yes, it's a single patch!)
>>>>2. Modify the fs/yaffs2/yaffs_mtdif2.c to use
>>>>
>>>>
>>read_oobfree/write_oobfree
>>
>>
>>>>where appropriate.
>>>>
>>>>Hope that helps,
>>>>
>>>> Vitaly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Hi Vitaly
>>>
>>>Is this in CVS yet? If not, I hope it will be there soon.
>>>
>>>From what I see, this is going to be just what we need.
>>>
>>>YAFFS2 does not need to write_oobfree as a seperate function (it is
>>>always written as a single page write). YAFFS2 only needs
>>>
>>>
>>read_oobfree.
>>
>>
>>>However, YAFFS1 could use the write_oobfree function at some future
>>>date if YAFFS1 gets moved to this interface to remove the current
>>>reliance on hanging the ugly ECC parameter stuff through the
>>>
>>>
>>interface.
>>
>>
>>>I am pretty busy right now, but will try get the YAFFS2 side sorted
>>>ASAP. If the YAFFS2 stuff is CVSed before the mtd then I'll just
>>>
>>>
>>point
>>
>>
>>>people to this patch.
>>>
>>>Thanx!
>>>
>>>Charles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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