arm: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: enable ext4 directly

[PATCH] arm: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: enable ext4 directly

Posted by Andreas Kemnade 2 months, 1 week ago

In former times, ext4 was enabled implicitely by enabling ext3 but with
the ext3 fs gone, it does not get enabled, which lets devices fail to
mount root on non-initrd based boots with an ext4 root.

Fixes: d6ace46c82fd ("ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
---
 arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
index 9a57763a8d38a..0d55056c6f821 100644
--- a/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/configs/imx_v6_v7_defconfig
@@ -436,9 +436,9 @@ CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
 CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y
 CONFIG_EXT2_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
 CONFIG_EXT2_FS_SECURITY=y
-CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
-CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
-CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY=y
+CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
+CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
+CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
 CONFIG_QUOTA=y
 CONFIG_QUOTA_NETLINK_INTERFACE=y
 CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
-- 
2.47.3

Re: [PATCH] arm: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: enable ext4 directly

Posted by Shawn Guo 1 month, 3 weeks ago

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 02:17:09PM +0200, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> In former times, ext4 was enabled implicitely by enabling ext3 but with
> the ext3 fs gone, it does not get enabled, which lets devices fail to
> mount root on non-initrd based boots with an ext4 root.
> 
> Fixes: d6ace46c82fd ("ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options")
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>

Applied, thanks!

Re: [PATCH] arm: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: enable ext4 directly

Posted by Fabio Estevam 2 months ago

Hi Andreas,

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info> wrote:
>
> In former times, ext4 was enabled implicitely by enabling ext3 but with
> the ext3 fs gone, it does not get enabled, which lets devices fail to
> mount root on non-initrd based boots with an ext4 root.
>
> Fixes: d6ace46c82fd ("ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options")
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>

Thanks for the fix. Just faced this issue.

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>