UBI: fix rb_tree node comparison in add_map commit buggy?

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Mon Jun 23 22:26:06 PDT 2014


Hello Artem,

Am 24.06.2014 06:59, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 21:07 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> I think it would be better to "fix" the whole logic such that low volume ids go into
>> the left rb node instead of the right.
>> Just to avoid further confusion.
>> Artem, do you know why UBI does it the other way around for volume ids?
>
> I do not remember. Probably no particular reason.
>
> I'd suggest to do a quick fix first and submit to Linus for 3.16, and
> then people can do whatever logic streamlining for 3.17, makes sense?

I posted such a patch, but for some reason, I could not find it in
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2014-June/date.html

Here an extract from the header I got, as I was on Cc ...

From: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
To: linux-mtd at lists.infradead.org
Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace at gmail.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>,
	Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>,
	linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ubi: fix correct rb_tree node comparison in add_vol
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:27:09 +0200
Message-Id: <1403530029-12151-1-git-send-email-hs at denx.de>
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bye,
Heiko
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