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* AW: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications
@ 2005-10-06  6:45 Neundorf, Alexander
  2005-10-06  7:22 ` Andrew Lunn
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Neundorf, Alexander @ 2005-10-06  6:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn; +Cc: ecos-devel



> Von: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it's not even one year ago, and already I have the next 
> version of my patch available ;-)
> 
> The attached patch implements a read-only filesystem for FIS, 
> and three extra utility functions for manipulating it safely 
> from ecos applications.

Any comments ?

Alex

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* Re: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications
  2005-10-06  6:45 AW: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications Neundorf, Alexander
@ 2005-10-06  7:22 ` Andrew Lunn
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Lunn @ 2005-10-06  7:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Neundorf, Alexander; +Cc: ecos-devel

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:44:58AM +0200, Neundorf, Alexander wrote:
> 
> 
> > Von: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > it's not even one year ago, and already I have the next 
> > version of my patch available ;-)
> > 
> > The attached patch implements a read-only filesystem for FIS, 
> > and three extra utility functions for manipulating it safely 
> > from ecos applications.
> 
> Any comments ?

The same onces as last year.

You should also take a look at locking. You have some locking between
the FS and the functions, but it has race conditions. The locking the
other way does not exist at all.

You also incorrectly use st_mode, but that is minor.

        Andrew

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* AW: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications
@ 2005-09-26  7:03 Neundorf, Alexander
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Neundorf, Alexander @ 2005-09-26  7:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tarmo Pikaro; +Cc: eCos development

Hi,

> Von: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
> Betreff: Re: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism
> for FIS from within ecos applications
> 
> 
> Hi !
> 
> Hmmm... I'm kinda involved with firmware updating,
> just a curious to hear that someone takes a closer
> look at fail-safeness of update. Can you send me all
> the related documentation and source code ?

the email and the attached patch contains basically all information. If something is still unclear, ask me

Bye
Alex

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* AW: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications
@ 2005-09-23 12:25 Neundorf, Alexander
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Neundorf, Alexander @ 2005-09-23 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn; +Cc: ecos-devel

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There went something wrong when creating the last patch, the attached one should now actually work :-/

Alex

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