On 11/1/10, Charles Manning <manningc2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :-). > I can resend it with your signed-off-by line instead of mine. >> 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. > Like I said its exactly from the git tree(http://github.com/cdhmanning/linux-yaffs-integration/). It should still be compatible with all the existing tools. > > -- CHarles > > Tracey Dent -- 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
