Re: kernel 4.6 and f2fs/crc32
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 13:53, JM wrote:
> I have updated my box to kernel 4.6 bpo recently and my system
> initially failed to boot so I figured I could send a heads up.
>
> I have my root partition on f2fs and it failed to mount. Apparently in
> 4.6 crc32 was renamed to crc32_generic [1,2], but f2fs wasn't updated
> to reflect that and it tries and fails to load crc32 (I think... I
> didn't investigate very thoroughly due to lack of time).
>
> To work around that, you need to add crc32_generic to your initramfs
> modules and flash that before updating. Just to spare you some time
> fiddling with those UART cables...
Interesting. I'm running upstream 4.6.4 with f2fs on home partition
without any problem. Just looked to kernel config file which I used to
build kernel and there is no crc32_generic option.
I don't want to tell that you are wrong but I'm little confused.
> 1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7c58ac06224b83dba93eaafde88535d5da60aef
> 2 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210673
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