Re: [PATCH 0/29] Staging: Add yaffs2 filesystem

[Charles Manning]

On Tuesday 02 November 2010 08:24:42 David Daney wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 12:14 PM, Charles Manning wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 November 2010 07:55:39 David Daney wrote:
> >> On 11/01/2010 11:40 AM, Tracey Dent wrote:
> >>> The patch sets puts the yaffs2 filesystem in the staging directory.
> >>> It is all based on Charles git
> >>> tree(http://github.com/cdhmanning/linux-yaffs-integration/). Everything
> >>> is compile tested and it builds.
> >>>
> >>> This only the inital support and I will be sending more cleanup
> >>> patches.
> >>>
> >>> Greg can you add the patch set into your staging-next tree.
> >>> Also, It doesn't affect anything other than itself.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Tracey Dent
> >>
> >> I am confused.
> >>
> >> Are you and Charles Manning working together on this?
> >>
> >> Did you write all this code or did Charles?  If it was Charles, why are
> >> there no From: and Signed-off-by headers for him?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for enlightening us as to what is going on here,
> >> David Daney
> >
> > We are not working together on this, but I do appreciate the effort in
> > helping bring to a head what people like/dislike.
> >
> > I am trying to keep the kernel yaffs consistent with the yaffs.net yaffs
> > so that it is easier to add changes from yaffs.net.
>
> Great.  Thanks for clearing things up.
>
> I will offer my unsolicited opinion:
>
> Charles has obviously expended great effort on yaffs2.  He has a git
> repository hosting the code, and has expressed a desire to get the code
> fit for merging.  For Tracey Dent to come along and hijack the entire
> effort, would anger me if I were in Charles' place.

I don't see any malicious intent from Tracey, but I do wish to see some 
recognition for 8+ years of effort :-).

> Having used yaffs2 in the past, I would like to see the code in the
> kernel.  Having it come via Charles would seem to make sense.
>

A prime consideration from me is to try keep the kernel and yaffs.net versions 
of yaffs very close to consistent. That will allow me to continue to use my 
existing out-of-kernel dev tools and have other benefits.


-- CHarles

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