Andy Green wrote: > Werner, isn't YAFFS just here for the Dash thing? I don't remember why it's in the GTA01/02 tree, but HXD8 has forked from Openmoko mainline long ago (a year ?) and uses a set of patches with the 20071220 snapshot. (Which compiles fine.)
> But if it doesn't > compile (since mokopatches I hope) and nobody complained do we still > need it around? The HXD8 tree was never merged back into Openmoko mainline, so it's not important for HXD8 to keep this bit around. In case such a merge is done later, it would be easy enough to bring YAFFS2 back. Following the linux-mtd mailing list, I also see a lot of negative comments about YAFF2, although few of them based on actual technical shortcomings. Another less than cheerful comment I saw there is this: | From: Jean Pihet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:51:40 +0200 | Subject: Re: [BUG] JFFS2 usage of write_begin and write_end functions [...] 2.6.24 JFFS2 as such is pretty unstable. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2008-April/021169.html The same thread had a pointer to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtd-mods. as a source for cherry-picking changes. (The thread in question hasn't reached a conclusion on the issue that started this - a kernel panic while torture-testing JFFS2.) If the "April update" also includes an upgrade of the mainline kernel, we might pick up some useful fixes in this area as well. - Werner
