Re: kernel 4.6 and f2fs/crc32
On Thu, 2016-07-21 at 14:23, Milan P. Stanic wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, I noticed that I didn't compiled CRYPTO_CRC32 as a module but in
kernel.
> > 1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a7c58ac06224b83dba93eaafde88535d5da60aef
> > 2 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210673
>
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