[U-Boot] JFFS2 scanning bug

Mark Jackson mpfj-list at mimc.co.uk
Wed Feb 25 14:07:03 CET 2009


I've just updated from v2008.10 to v2009.01 on my AVR32 board (MIMC200).

JFFS2 no longer works (it hangs at "Scanning JFFS2 FS:", so I've done a git 
bisect, and here's the result:-

8a36d31f72411144ac0412ee7e1880e801acd754 is first bad commit
commit 8a36d31f72411144ac0412ee7e1880e801acd754
Author: Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 13 19:49:33 2008 +0300

     jffs2: rewrite jffs2 scanning code based on Linux one

     Rewrites jffs2_1pass_build_lists() function in style of Linux's
     jffs2_scan_medium() and jffs2_scan_eraseblock().
     This includes:
      - Caching flash acceses
      - Smart dealing with free space

     Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <avn at emcraft.com>
     Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok at emcraft.com>

:040000 040000 9c5a40532bce0ea6df7a287e3dff47189d513dd0 
8d4145b1d15ebd9a1281c5c8e7dd2e32ef168b26 M	fs

Is this a known problem ?

Regards
Mark


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