[Yaffs] Fwd: Re: Handling YAFFS in Linux --> the next wee while

[Charles Manning]

Hi YAFFSers

Behind the scenes, Marty, Luc and I have been doing quite a lot of 
discussion/planning on:

* Where yaffs Linux is going in the short, medium and longer terms.
* A brief timescale for the shorter term stuff.


The short term action plan we have, I think, settled on is as follows:

1) Rest of this week accept patches. Try to integrate as much good stuff as 
possible. Thus, if you have Good Stuff patches, please submit them ASAP. 
Please make these off CVS to make them easy to integrate.
2) Next week. code clean-up and any CVS restructuring etc required.
3) Week after, defered problems and new features. psatchin, utils etc.

At that point we should have a very neat source with a patchin etc that should 
make YAFFS just "plug in and go". THis is also something we can start trying 
to push into the kernel.

To make things realistic, the focus is first going to be on the yaffs2 
codebase (incuding yaffs1 backward compatability mode) for 2.6.


The intention is to do as much messy stuff in step 2 as possible to keep 
disruption to a minimum. We will try to keep CVS sane at all times, but I 
expect that this will not always be possible (think of it as a building 
site :-) ). CVS will be tagged at the start of each phase, and snapshot 
tarballs will be saved.

2.4 support will not be intentionally dropped or broken, but if it does fall 
over then we'll, come back later to put it back on its bike.  If, however, 
someone really feels strongly enough to be a 2.4 champion during this action 
plan, feel free to volunteer.

-- Charles