[U-Boot] Pull request: Integrate latest yaffs2

[Charles Manning]

On Friday 27 April 2012 00:25:55 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Charles Manning,
>
> In message <201204261028.44543.manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz> you wrote:
> > 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.
>
> U-Boot has a different policy.  Here nothing goes into mainline that
> has not been posted on the mailing list before.  There are several
> reasons for this:  1) We want to make sure that the code has actually
> been visible and reviewed.  When pulling from a git repo, you just get
> a drop of software in unknown condition.  2) We want to make sure the
> review process gets recorded - we use patchwork for this purpose.
>
> So if you want to submit your code, then please post patches.  There
> is no way around this step.
>

I understand what you are trying to achieve but the reality is that nobody is 
going to read the patching of a whole file system.

If you supported patches greater than 100k this would be trivial to do, but I 
have a single file greater than that. Perhaps it is time to accept larger 
patches more consistent with the lkml and friends.

-- Charles