linux-kernel - Re: pxa3xx_nand times out in 4.14 with JFFS2

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Message-ID: <20171217155305.16c5bb4f@bbrezillon>
Date:   Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:53:05 +0100
From:   Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>
To:     Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar>
Cc:     Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
        "linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pxa3xx_nand times out in 4.14 with JFFS2

On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:27:51 -0300
Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar> wrote:

> On 17 December 2017 at 09:05, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I recently bought a Linksys WRT1900ACS which hosts an Armada 385 and a
> > NAND flash. While I could get OpenWRT to work flawlessly on it using
> > kernel 4.4, mainline 4.14.6 fails with a lot of such messages :
> >
> >     pxa3xx-nand f10d0000.flash: Wait time out!!!
> >  
> 
> Boris,
> 
> Any idea why this issue is on v4.14, but not observed on v4.4?

I have absolutely no idea.

> 
> Also, is this somehow related to Armada 385 only?

I doubt it. My guess is that almost nobody uses JFFS2 these days, which
may explain why this problem has not been detected before.