[U-Boot] Pull request: Integrate latest yaffs2

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Charles,

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Charles Manning
<manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> 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.

We do support patches > 100k - Just not directly via the mailing list.
They get posted here:

http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/U-Boot/TooBigPatches

You will need to set yourself up on the U-Boot wiki to post your patches there

Regards,

Graeme