[Yaffs] Re: Yaffs direct

[ksi at koi8.net]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Charles Manning wrote:

[dd]

>>> Yaffs doesn't need MTD, but it can use it if you like (and most
> people do
>>> under linux).
>
> YAFFS can and does work with the mtd with some twists. YAFFS1 (512-byte
> pages)
> is a straight drop in. With yaffs2 there are some incompatabilities that
> are
> fully ironed out. Some people can get a solution working with "Sergey's
> patch" - found on the list, but this does not always work.

Would you care to elaborate, please? When this does NOT work? It's straight
from MTD NAND API, it MUST work. Please give me an example of some
non-exotic setup where it doesn't work. I'm curious how can somebody make it
not work? And I'd like to fix those "non-working" cases. Please give me
specifics, don't try to get away with meaningless "does not always work".

And please tell the entire list auditorium why those patches are NOT in the
source tree yet? Even if you really have a case when it's not working (that
I doubt), it _"does not always work"_ vs your source that NEVER EVER worked.
Isn't it better to have something that works at least in some cases?

I do understand that I'm not among your faithful worshippers but this is
simply ridiculous...

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