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

[David Daney]

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.

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.

David Daney
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