From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mika.eatserver.nl ([2001:67c:28fc:195:20:9:75:0]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1TtciD-0004eB-PT for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:23:51 +0000 Message-ID: <50EFF641.9080503@aimvalley.nl> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:23:45 +0100 From: Norbert van Bolhuis MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bosi Daniele Subject: Re: R: UBI corruption on a NOR flash References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On 01/11/13 10:00, Bosi Daniele wrote: > Norbert, > thank you very much for your quick support. > I've downloaded the ubifs-v2.6.32.git linux as you suggested us, but I see a lot a differences regarding UBI with our very old 2.6.24.6 kernel. > > Do you think this is the only work we can do? Are there other possible solutions to fix the issue we have? (Like for example applying the patch showed in http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2010-December/033322.html) ? > > Thank you again > Daniele Bosi > I would update to the ubi/ubifs backported v2.6.32 because: - the ubi/mtd CFI buffer write patch involves several patches, with one or two patches/updates lateron - other NOR flash (power cut) problems were solved as well and you're not sure which one hurts you Actually, we are very lucky Artem still maintains (or maintained?) ubifs-v2.6.32.git since v2.6.32 is more than 3 years old. --- Norbert