[U-Boot] Pull request: Integrate latest yaffs2

[Charles Manning]

On Thursday 26 April 2012 10:40:51 Tom Rini wrote:
> On 04/25/2012 03:28 PM, Charles Manning wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Right, but a proper set of individual patches could be posted and
> reviewed in the future, yes?

That makes sense to me.

-- Charles