Author: Ian McDonnell Date: To: rick CC: yaffs Subject: Re: [Yaffs] [PATCH] [YAFFS] YAFFS2: Add comments for maintaining
backward compatibility.
On Friday 07 September 2007 11:06, Rick Bronson wrote: > Ian wrote:
> > Without the change to MTD, I fear that adding this comment may set
> > expectations that achieving per-partition layout policies is
> > easier than it really is. It requires modifications to core MTD code
> > and supporting this is really not for Yaffs, more MTD. Do you agree.
> >
>
> Part of me agrees but I'd also like to share what I was forced to do
> with the world. There are probably other folks out there that need to
> maintain backward compatibility.
True.
> At least this gives them some clue.
> I'm still testing these changes so it's too early to say "it works
> great".
Perhaps you'd like to post your MTD patch when it's stable and it can
be added to the Yaffs' patches directory.
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