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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