From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:14:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd57c90050704091420198987@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118327333.2401.42.camel@playin.mvista.com>
On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are
> created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The
> mtd-utils package requires the existence of character device nodes for
> performing erase, lock and unlock functions. The problem is that the
> flash device driver has not been modified to use sysfs instead of devfs.
>
> I have attached a patch to mtdchar.c which uses the sysfs interface to
> create the appropriate nodes. Please let me know if you have comments.
I encountered the same problem days ago. Thanks for the patch. A patch
based on yours will be sent in the next mail.
--
Coywolf Qi Hunt
http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/
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From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:14:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd57c90050704091420198987@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118327333.2401.42.camel@playin.mvista.com>
On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are
> created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The
> mtd-utils package requires the existence of character device nodes for
> performing erase, lock and unlock functions. The problem is that the
> flash device driver has not been modified to use sysfs instead of devfs.
>
> I have attached a patch to mtdchar.c which uses the sysfs interface to
> create the appropriate nodes. Please let me know if you have comments.
I encountered the same problem days ago. Thanks for the patch. A patch
based on yours will be sent in the next mail.
--
Coywolf Qi Hunt
http://ahbl.org/~coywolf/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-04 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-09 14:16 patch to create sysfs char device nodes Paolo Galtieri
2005-07-04 16:14 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt [this message]
2005-07-04 16:14 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-07-04 16:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-07-04 16:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-07-04 17:15 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
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