[PATCH] [JFFS2] allow JFFS2 to discriminate between recoverable and non-recoverable errors

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 17:13 +0200, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote:
> This patch is basicaly a reverse of commit f326966b3df47f4fa7e90425f60efdd30c31fe19.
> 
> It allows JFFS2 to make the distinction between a potential transient error
> (reading or writing the media) and a non recoverable error like a bad CRC on
> the extended attribute data or some insconsitent paramaters.
> 
> In order to make clear that the error is indeed intended to report a corrupted
> attribute, a new local error code (JFFS2_XATTR_IS_CORRUPTED) is introduced.
> 
> This error code is never reported to user space and only checked locally in this
> file.

Pushed both to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

Can you confirm that these 2 patches solve the issues you earlier
described on this mailing list?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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