[U-Boot] Problem with SD card and ext2ls

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear javier Martin,

In message <eedb5540911200347t5f11bdcat9206e2d9f1a7f971 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> I have an SD card with an ext2 partition and I am trying to access it
> through ext2ls command but this is what I get:
> 
> # ext2ls mmc 0:1 /
> ** Bad partition - mmc 0:1 **
> 
> I have read some previous mails of some people complaining about a
> similar problem:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg12776.html
> 
> Here also Wolfgang Denk says that ext2 is currently broken in u-boot
> for newer ext2 images.

Well, that was a long, long time ago. And the problem reported there
(and fixed since) was about newer (bigger) inode sizes - this has
nothing to do with "Bad partition" errors.

> Is this still true or has it been fixed since then?

The problems referred to in the posting you quote have long been
fixed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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