On Tuesday 03 February 2009 13:18:15 James Kehl wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: yaffs-bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk [mailto:yaffs-
> > bounces@lists.aleph1.co.uk] On Behalf Of Charles Manning
> > Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 10:06 AM
> > To: yaffs@lists.aleph1.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Yaffs] The mounted yaffs2 file system just has a
> > lost+founddirectory
> >
> > Because the mtd drivers have great variance in how they handle the oob
> > tags
> > area it is impossible to have a single way for mkyaffs2image to write
>
> the
>
> > tags. Instead you will likely need to tweak the tags writing to make
>
> this
>
> > work.
>
> Just a whimsy: seeing as this question keeps recurring, is it worth
> having a
> #error Edit this section to match your MTD driver
> somewhere?
>
> Or even an run-time option to select your tags/MTD format, with an error
> given if you don't specify anything?
>
> James
A runtime config would be nice.
Something that once occurred to me as a Good Idea would be some way of getting
the mtd to spit out a wee "config" that mkyaffs2image could read at runtime
and do the right thing.
These things would all be helpful and it would be good if someone could give
that a go. I just don't have the time right now.
-- CHarles
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