[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 00/10] Replace the FAT filesystem code

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 08:55:35AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> The existing FAT filesystem implementation in U-Boot has some bugs that
> are tricky to fix cleanly without significant rework of the code. For
> example, see:
> 
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-July/221054.html
> [PATCH] fat: handle paths that include ../
> 
> This series replaces U-Boot's FAT filesystem implementation with the "ff"
> project; http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html. This project appears
> to be actively maintained, does not have at least the bug referenced in
> the patch link above, and is quite easy to integrate into U-Boot. An
> earlier version is also used in Barebox, so presumably it's had some
> level of testing/exposure there.

So, yes.  I can see this being a useful way forward for dealing with
FAT.

> Note that this series is based on u-boot/master without the patch linked
> above applied. I wonder if it's a little risky to apply this series after
> -rc1; perhaps the patch above should be applied to v2015.10, and this
> series immediately after the release?

Yes, it's too late for v2015.10 but we can put this in for the next
release assuming there's enough testing and agreement and so forth.

-- 
Tom
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