Are there UBI layout changes between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36?

[Jon Povey]

linux-mtd-bounces at lists.infradead.org wrote:
> Folk
>
> I have been helping some people get an omap3 overo-based system going.
> Everything is working fine using 2.6.35 and software ECC, but
> when I changed
> I change to 2.6.36 and hwecc things stop working. I get the following
> problem, and obviously no boot :-(.
>
> UBI: attaching mtd7 to ubi0
> UBI: physical eraseblock size:   131072 bytes (128 KiB)
> UBI: logical eraseblock size:    129024 bytes
> UBI: smallest flash I/O unit:    2048
> UBI: sub-page size:              512
> UBI: VID header offset:          512 (aligned 512)
> UBI: data offset:                2048
> UBI: corrupted PEBs will be formatted
> UBI: max. sequence number:       0
> UBI error: vtbl_check: bad CRC at record 0: 0xc4ef3d92, not 0x639e7026
> UBI error: vtbl_check: bad CRC at record 0: 0xc4ef3d92, not 0x639e7026
> UBI error: process_lvol: both volume tables are corrupted
> UBI error: ubi_attach_mtd_dev: failed to attach by scanning, error -22
> UBI error: ubi_init: cannot attach mtd7

...

> mkfs.ubifs  -m 2048 -e 126KiB -c 1000 -r .  $tmp_dir/ubifs.tmp
> ubinize -o $out_file -p 128KiB -s 512 -m 2048 ubinize.cmd
>
> Has something changed between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36 that will
> mess up the way the
> volumes are managed?

A couple of months ago there was a bad patch to mtd.utils that
caused mkfs.ubifs to generate bogus CRCs. That cause similar
symptoms for me. It was fixed before 2.6.36 came out of -rc.

Did you update your mtd.utils as well as the kernel?

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