From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse To: Mark Richards In-Reply-To: <009a01c3defc$5a0b9820$6e01a8c0@solarwave> References: <009a01c3defc$5a0b9820$6e01a8c0@solarwave> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1074607648.29472.17.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:07:29 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: MTD - DOC 2000 freezes on umount List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:23 -0500, Mark Richards wrote: > I've been through several good learning experiences getting my development > system set up to work with a DOC 2000 for an embedded project. I've finally > settled on a RedHat 7.2 distribution and the 2.4.24 kernel. All worked well > with the MTD drivers in several other setups: RedHat 9, Mandrake 9.2, but > for reasons I can't yet fathom, the MTD drivers seem a bit unstable in this > particular kernel. > > Most frequently when I perform a umount /mnt/doc (doc being the mount point) > the shell session freezes (the umount command does not return a prompt). Hit SysRq-P and/or SysRq-T to see precisely where it's locked up. > I tried in one kernel build to apply the latest sources to my source tree > using the instructions (and the shell script) but this caused a compile > failure. Insufficient information to diagnose. -- dwmw2