Hi Stephen, On 11 August 2015 at 08:55, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> 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. >
This seems like a good idea to me. Are there some standard tests for FAT that we can bring in also? Perhaps using sandbox? At present we have fs-test.sh which is a start. > 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? Sounds good. Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
