Re: UBIFS on kernel 2.6.24?

[Fortini Matteo <matteo.fortini@mta.it>]

Up for the parent.

Unfortunately, MPC512x support is not in the mainstream kernel yet!

Thank you for your good work anyway.

Matteo

Il 10/12/2009 10.19, David Jander ha scritto:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 11:55:09 am Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 11:40 +0100, David Jander wrote:
>>      
>>> Back on topic:
>>> I have repeated the nand-tests on another board, and they ran just fine,
>>> repeating for quite a while without any error, so I guess that proves
>>> that the hardware and nand-driver are working reasonably well. OTOH, The
>>> two failed systems, also were running for several months with very heavy
>>> flash-disk I/O (not as much as to wear it out though, there's still
>>> roughly 40% free space on the UBI volume). It has gone through installing
>>> ubuntu on it, and building several debian packages from source, etc...
>>> all apparently without problems, until one day 'ls -l /etc/' just failed.
>>> I will try to pull from ubifs-v2.6.24.git, but I'd like to know your
>>> opinion on what the chances are that this update will fix the problem or
>>> bug that caused this corruption?
>>>        
>> I cannot tell for sure, it may.
>>      
> Ok, thanks.
>
>    
>> What I can say for sure is that I personally is not very interested in
>> solving problems for too old UBIFS code-base. Well, problems I can
>> reproduce here, in my setup, are OK, but subtle problems which I cannot
>> reproduce here are not OK - I really want to be sure UBI/UBIFS are
>> up-to-date and this is not something we already fixed.
>>      
> I understand. All I wanted is to see if someone would jump up and say
> something like: "Oh, no, this old version is known to be broken, you need some
> important bug-fixes that went into the updates". That obviously didn't happen,
> so I know what I am facing: Update to the latest version, test it thoroughly,
> and hope for the best :-(
>
>    
>> BTW, from now on 2.6.24 back-port support is dropped. But it is
>> up-to-date _now_ :-)
>>      
> Ouch. Unfortunately for our platform there is no reasonable chance I could
> move to a newer kernel anytime soon (still no mainline support) :-(
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best regards,
>
>    

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