Ubi patch proposition for 3.10.y

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 08.09.2014 11:58, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy:
> On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 14:26 +0200, jean-philippe francois wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think commit 4b3e0a25... [1] (UBI: Call scan_all() with correct
>> offset in error case) should be added to 3.10.y stable branch.
> 
> This is the "fastmap" fix, and fastmap is called experimental. We do not
> have enough confidence it is production ready. Specifically, I'd like to
> hear someone doing extensive power-cut testing with this feature. The
> power-cut tolerance is one of the "selling features" of UBI/UBIFS, after
> all.
> 
> Therefore I never added fastmap fixes to the stable queue.
> 
> But if someone is willing to put all the fastmap fixes together, add the
> "stable tags" with the right kernel version "markings", and test for few
> older kernels, then I will recommend them to be included to the stable.
> Although I am not sure the stable maintainers would like accept them.

I'll take care of that from now on.

Thanks,
//richard