[PATCH 1/1] fs: eliminate YAFFS2 implementation

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at mailbox.org
Sun Jan 5 00:34:12 CET 2025


On 1/4/25 8:31 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> +cdhmanning at gmail.com
> 
> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 at 14:24, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 04, 2025 at 01:34:02AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>
>>> Upstream development stopped 2012.
> 
> I believe upstream is at [1] and I still see pull requests, perhaps
> just in maintenance mode.
> 
>>> Linux eliminated YAFFS2 in 2010.
> 
> Do you have a link for the commit, or why that was? I have probably forgotten.
> 
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>>
> 
> I don't have any objection to this. I think most boards have migrated
> to MMC and UFS by now. There is at least one board in the tree
> (gurnard) which could have YAFFS2 enabled, but doesn't.
YAFFS2 is flash filesystem, so most systems which still need to use raw 
flash instead switched over to UBI/UBIFS , except for a few which might 
still use JFFS on NOR flashes.


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