[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 05/10] fat: ff: read max contiguous file data

[Stephen Warren]

On 10/02/2015 12:06 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Enhance f_read() to find the maximum contiguous set of clusters to read,
> and read it all at once (which is fast) rather one by one (which is
> slow).

Hmm. I had hoped that the author of ff.c would accept this patch 
upstream, so we could pick up a later upstream version that included 
this patch. However, it seems the author of ff.c has a policy of not 
accepting outside contributions:

http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/bd/?show=2472
(That's a link to the author's reply to my patch, on the forum system 
associated with his/her SW)

I wonder how much of a liability incorporating ff.c into U-Boot will be, 
if we can't ever get any fixes merged upstream. Perhaps we just fork it, 
although I had hoped we'd be able to keep picking up new versions.