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Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:24:42 -0700
From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
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To: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/29] Staging: Add yaffs2 filesystem
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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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