Query mtd-utils v1.4.9 : flash_erase.c

[Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier.adi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 11:04 AM
> To: Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579
> Cc: Brian Norris; Wood Scott-B07421; linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org; Artem
> Bityutskiy; stanley.miao at windriver.com
> Subject: Re: Query mtd-utils v1.4.9 : flash_erase.c
> 
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 23:55, Kushwaha Prabhakar-B32579 wrote:
> > Yes I am fully agree. I have a question about few patches send long
> back by "Stanley Miao".
> > They are as follows:
> >
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/56261/
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/56262/
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/56263/
> >
> > These patches were never delegated/applied as state are still "New".
> >
> > These patches can become a good base for new patches.
> >
> > Do anyone has any idea; why were these never applied/delegated?
> 
> they'll certainly need rebasing now as the code has changed, and i can
> see some issues that need addressing, but fundamentally, those seem like
> a good idea

Got your point :)

A general question why these type of patches are not coming in mtd-utils.
Is it because going forward UBIFS is the next file system and nobody wants to focus jffs2.

or

unfortunately developer doesn’t have time. 

--Prabhakar