From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vb Subject: Re: Mounting CF flash card in 2.6.25 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:48:18 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080603171923.7aaf87b5@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.226]:18157 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751936AbYFCQsT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:48:19 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c48so3377644wra.1 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080603171923.7aaf87b5@core> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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 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/. It does create other devices, right? >> 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? TIA, /vb