[U-Boot] Pull request: Integrate latest yaffs2

[Charles Manning]

On Thursday 26 April 2012 10:21:37 Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:08:42AM +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 April 2012 08:58:09 you wrote:
> > > Dear Charles Manning,
> > >
> > > In message <201204231346.32195.manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz> you wrote:
> > > > I recently sent a message to the list announcing a method for
> > > > patching in the latest yaffs2.
> > > >
> > > > u-boot updated with the latest yaffs2 can be pulled from
> > > > git at github.com:cdhmanning/u-boot-yaffs2.git
> > >
> > > Please read http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches and post proper
> > > patch(es) for review.
> >
> > At least one of the files exceeds the 100k patch limit.
> >
> > I know you'd like patches, but there are two really easy options for
> > someone on the inside to do this:
> >
> > 1) Run the script off the yaffs git
> > -or-
> > 2) Merge from the https://github.com/cdhmanning/u-boot-yaffs2
>
> So this means things have gotten really far out of sync.  Would you be
> willing to say that in the future you'll be submitting regular well
> formatted and broken down patches like I assume you do in the yaffs2
> tree itself so we can avoid this in the future?

yaffs went through a large reformat a while ago meaning that the current code 
does not diff well against the old code. Future changes shuld be a lot easier 
to handle with direct patching.

yaffs changes typically don't go through the yaffs  list since people with 
direct git checkin access do 95-99% of the changes.

-- CHarles