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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
