Re: [Yaffs] yaffs2 on kernel 4.15

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Author: Charles Manning
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To: Ketil Froyn, yaffs
Subject: Re: [Yaffs] yaffs2 on kernel 4.15
Hello Ketil

I am sorry I did not respond to this email earlier.

The Yaffs vfs wrapper is a bit out of date at the moment and I intend to
spend a few days bringing that up to date and clearing up one or two other
Yaffs issues next week.

Regards

Charles


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 8:51 AM Ketil Froyn <> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get yaffs2 working on Ubuntu 18.04, to run some
> experiments with yaffs2 and nandsim. The linux kernel bundled with
> Ubuntu is 4.15.0-34-generic (as Ubuntu chooses to call it).
>
> I tried to compile yaffs2, but I got some errors. I found the patches
> for recent kernels suggested on this list by Martin Kaiser, and I
> applied them, but I still have some problems. The errors I get seem to
> be related to timer interface changes made in 4.15. For instance,
> init_timer_on_stack() is replaced by timer_setup_on_stack(), the
> timer_list struct has changed and the callback function has a
> different declaration.
>
> For all I know this may be easy to fix for someone familiar with yaffs
> internals, but I'd be dabbling with things I don't understand very
> well. Has anyone else done this, or should I take a stab at it myself?
>
> Regards, Ketil
>
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