openwrt/target/linux/generic/hack-4.14
Koen Vandeputte f1a2b5bbbc kernel: tolerate using UBI/UBIFS on MLC flash (FS#1830)
starting from upstream commit 577b4eb23811 ("ubi: Reject MLC NAND")
it is not allowed to use UBI and UBIFS on a MLC flavoured NAND flash chip. [1]

According to David Oberhollenzer [2]:

The real problem is that on MLC NAND, pages come in pairs.

Multiple voltage levels inside a single, physical memory cell are used to
encode more than one bit. Instead of just having pages that are twice as big,
the flash exposes them as two different pages. Those pages are usually not
ordered sequentially either, but according to a vendor/device specific
pairing scheme.

Within OpenWrt, devices utilizing this type of flash,
combined with UBI(fs) will be bricked when a user upgrades
from 17.01.4 to a newer version as the MLC will be refused.

As these devices are currently advertised as supported by OpenWrt,
we should at least maintain the original state during the lifecycle
of the current releases.

Support can be gracefully ended when a new release-branch is created.

Signed-off-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.e>

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v4.14.77&id=577b4eb23811dfc8e38924dc476dbc866be74253
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/920344/
2018-10-29 10:56:59 +01:00
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202-reduce_module_size.patch
204-module_strip.patch
207-disable-modorder.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.68 2018-09-07 17:22:23 +02:00
210-darwin_scripts_include.patch
211-host_tools_portability.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.60 for 18.06 2018-08-06 07:30:41 +02:00
212-byteshift_portability.patch
214-spidev_h_portability.patch
220-gc_sections.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.68 2018-09-07 17:22:23 +02:00
221-module_exports.patch
230-openwrt_lzma_options.patch
250-netfilter_depends.patch
251-sound_kconfig.patch
259-regmap_dynamic.patch
260-crypto_test_dependencies.patch
280-rfkill-stubs.patch
300-MIPS-r4k_cache-use-more-efficient-cache-blast.patch
301-mips_image_cmdline_hack.patch
321-powerpc_crtsavres_prereq.patch
420-allow-ubi-mlc-support.patch kernel: tolerate using UBI/UBIFS on MLC flash (FS#1830) 2018-10-29 10:56:59 +01:00
531-debloat_lzma.patch
640-bridge-only-accept-EAP-locally.patch
641-bridge_port_isolate.patch
650-netfilter-add-xt_OFFLOAD-target.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.52 for 18.06 2018-07-02 07:06:23 +02:00
651-wireless_mesh_header.patch
660-fq_codel_defaults.patch
661-use_fq_codel_by_default.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.77 2018-10-19 10:00:48 +02:00
662-remove_pfifo_fast.patch
700-swconfig_switch_drivers.patch
702-phy_add_aneg_done_function.patch
721-phy_packets.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.77 2018-10-19 10:00:48 +02:00
773-bgmac-add-srab-switch.patch
835-misc-owl_loader.patch
901-debloat_sock_diag.patch
902-debloat_proc.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.77 2018-10-19 10:00:48 +02:00
904-debloat_dma_buf.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.54 for 18.06 2018-07-12 13:54:24 +02:00
910-kobject_uevent.patch
911-kobject_add_broadcast_uevent.patch
921-always-create-console-node-in-initramfs.patch
930-crashlog.patch
940-cleanup-offload-hooks-on-netdev-unregister.patch kernel: bump 4.14 to 4.14.52 for 18.06 2018-07-02 07:06:23 +02:00