Re: Mounting CF flash card in 2.6.25

[vb <vb@vsbe.com>]

Michael, thank you for your reply and pardon my ignorance,

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Kernel does not maintain /dev, ever.  Times of devfs are long gone.
> All nodes in your /dev are created in userspace.
>

but I see that the kernel creates /dev/ram[0..15],
/dev/mtdblock[0..3], at least I see these mentioned in
block/genhd.c:major_names[] - are these not devices created by kernel?

Are you saying that I can't mount a CF card without initrd (or nfs
mounted userland, etc.)?

>>>> 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.
>

thank you for the hint, let me try this...

cheers,
/vb

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