Re: [Yaffs] [PATCH] make yaffs2 work with 2.6.17+ kernels

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Author: Charles Manning
Date:  
To: yaffs
CC: Jonathan McDowell
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] [PATCH] make yaffs2 work with 2.6.17+ kernels
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 18:45, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> On 10/3/06, Jonathan McDowell <> wrote:
> > I haven't had any time to look at this in the past couple of weeks, but
> > I've just updated my tree to use the latest yaffs2 CVS code and have
> > managed to mount my NAND using YAFFS, write a file system to it,
> > unmount, remount and see it all ok, then reboot and use the NAND as /
> > successfully. Very slow to mount, but seems to work from the minimal
> > testing I've tried so far.
>
> I think that's due to my OOB translation routines and that's expected.
> We need to figure out the better way to deal with that anyway, but I'm
> glad it at least works for now.


I had a look at the code Vitaly mentions. Sure, it would be nice to streamline
this out, but I think that's pretty low cost compared with ECC, reading etc.

-- CHarles