Wookey wrote:
> On 2008-03-10 20:37 +0100, Dirk Behme wrote:
>
>>Charles Manning wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All
>>>
>>>I have entered YAFFS for Google Summer of Code. We'll know in a few days if
>>>we're accepted.
>>>
>>>We have put a preliminary ideas list up at http://www.yaffs.net/ideas-list
>>>
>>>Any more ideas? If so, please send them to (on or off list) so that I can
>>>include them.
>>
>>One additional: I'm not so familiar with past discussion, but what's
>>about doing some work to get YAFFS itself closer to mainline
>>integration? Don't know what will be necessary for this though.
>
>
> Whilst this is highly worthwile, it is not really the sort of project
> that normally gets SoC approval. SoC is intended to let students learn
> to write new code on discrete projects small enough for them to have a
> reasonable chance of succeeding. Tarting up existing code to get it
> into kernel shape doesn't really count.
Hmmh, this depends on a good project description and maybe this
slightly changed?
See e.g.
https://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Google_Summer_of_Code
"Real Time Kernel" part?
Dirk
> On the subject of actual integration, one of the main things that is
> necessary is to get the inband tags code into CVS, because this makes
> YAFFS much better-matched to the way MTD in the kernel is headed, and
> thus should prevent resistance to it going in.
>
> Just to note another recent request for kernel inclusion I had OPen
> Embedded asking what the chances of YAFFS getting into mainlines were,
> as they'd really like it to be much easier for people to just pick
> 'YAFFS' when building an OE image.
>
> Wookey
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