Re: NAND flash driver

Pfooh! It seems I can post again.

:-)

    Michael.

> Szabolcs, Matt,
>
> I don't think there's any issue in hacking the msdos drivers in the
> kernel. We would do that just to try to test writing in a safe place
> in our internal flash rom. This could be reused for debugging in other
> porting projects, but this will never end up in user devices.
>
> My point is that our changes may never need to be released, except
> perhaps as a patch somewhere on a web page.
>
> Of course, if this fixes real issues in the main kernel or if it
> constitutes a worthy improvement, the patch should be submitted to the
> main branch...
>
> Did I understand things well?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael.
>
> PS: I'm copying your e-mail addresses as it seems I'm still unable to
> post any message to the handhelds.org mailing lists.
>
>> Szabolcs Gyurko wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> yes, indeed. I was thinking about the same thing, how to workaround it.
>>> My suggestion would be that we make a branch out of the msdos fs.
>>> Maybe strip it down to the minimum, because FAT12 is enough.
>>>
>>> I think you cannot add safely anything to the official msdos fs.
>>> Any comments?
>>> If you agree I would do this job since I'm familiar with writing
>>> fs driver into linux.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Szabolcs Gyurko
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, definitely look into what would need to change. Hopefully we
>> could just add a couple of ifdef's. The closer we can stay to the fs
>> that's in the official kernel, the better. Also, you might also check
>> with the FreeBSD guys, because I think they just took out some of
>> these kinds of sanity checks.
>>
>> Matt
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