Re: Mounting CF flash card in 2.6.25

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

vb wrote:
> Alan,
> 
> thank you for your reply, I am not quite clear with a couple of things
> though, please see below:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>> which tells me that the card is being recognized. However, there is no
>>> appropriate device get created in the /dev directory. Examining
>> The /dev creation is up to your initrd.
> 
> but I don't have initrd, so I need the kernel to create /dev/<drive>.
> It does create other devices, right?

Kernel does not maintain /dev, ever.  Times of devfs are long gone.
All nodes in your /dev are created in userspace.

>>> What needs to be done to get the device created and mapped to  a
>>> generic CF card?
>> You need to ensure you have SCSI_DISK support included (as CF is a disk)
>> and you need your initrd either to create device nodes, or to prepack
>> them.
> 
> I don't see SCSI_DISK as a config option, can you please elaborate on this?

It's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD.

/mjt