[Yaffs] Make YAFFS2 work, patch1

Martin Fouts Martin.Fouts at palmsource.com
Thu Oct 13 23:14:47 BST 2005


Thank you for the patch.  I've added it to my patch queue, and will test
it as soon as I have time available.

Marty 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yaffs-bounces at stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk 
> [mailto:yaffs-bounces at stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Sergey Kubushyn
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:12 AM
> To: yaffs-list
> Subject: [Yaffs] Make YAFFS2 work, patch1
> 
> This is a quick hack probably good for foreseable future. I 
> don't think a revolution for large page devices is on the 
> horizon, we will be using that
> nand_oob_64 autoplacement scheme for quite a long time.
> 
> The proper way is to consult mtd_info->nand_oobinfo->oobavail 
> and handle YAFFS tags placement ourselves, in that same 
> mtdif2.c. Autoplacement is not rocket science, there is 
> nothing divine in it. As a matter of fact it's as simple as a 
> shovel and proper handling of oobavail part of the entire oob 
> area is trivial and easier to implement than to write a "Hello, world"
> program.
> 
> BTW, it is NOT a very good idea to write mtd->oobsize (i.e. 
> 64) bytes of data out of yaffs_PackedTags2 structure...
> 
> Here is the patch:
> 
> === Cut ===
> diff -urN linux-2.6.12.orig/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_mtdif2.c 
> linux-2.6.12/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_mtdif2.c
> --- linux-2.6.12.orig/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_mtdif2.c	
> 2005-10-11 15:25:07.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.12/fs/yaffs2/yaffs_mtdif2.c	2005-10-11 
> 15:35:05.000000000 -0700
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
>  				       data);
>  		if (tags)
>  			retval =
> -			    mtd->write_oob(mtd, addr, 
> mtd->oobsize, &dummy,
> +			    mtd->write_oob(mtd, addr + 2, 
> sizeof(pt), &dummy,
>  					   (__u8 *) & pt);
> 
>  	}
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
>  					  dev->spareBuffer);
>  	}
> 
> -	memcpy(&pt, dev->spareBuffer, sizeof(pt));
> +	memcpy(&pt, &dev->spareBuffer[2], sizeof(pt));
> 
>  	if (tags)
>  		yaffs_UnpackTags2(tags, &pt);
> === Cut ===
> 
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