[Yaffs] Sorry state of YAFFS (YAFFS2 now), patches

[ian at brightstareng.com]

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:57, Sergey Kubushyn wrote:
> Guys, nand_read_oob() (and write too) _NEVER_ read (write)
> oobavail part, it has _ALWAYS_ been working with _RAW_ oob
> data !!! That is from as far back as I can see until today.
> Your mtdif2.c file used to read the oob and pack tags from it
> starting with bad block indicator and following reserved byte
> since version 1.0 and it still does that in the latest
> version. That means YAFFS2 _NEVER, EVER_ worked at all.

See postings titled: [Yaffs] yaffs2 oob offset problem
from August 2005.
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/pipermail/yaffs/2005q3/subject.html

Others have had similar problems, and others *do* have Yaffs2
working after various MTD/YAFFS hacking.

-imcd