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From: schang@3inet.com (Shuh C Chang)
To: "Felix Radensky" <felix@allot.com>,
	"Linux-mtd" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: DOC problems on PowerPC
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:36:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003b01c0dc83$4f6ace00$88b4b8d1@ShuhIII> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AFFE80B.DCE1B139@allot.com

> All I had to do is to run "eraseall /dev/mtd0",

Is "eraseall" equivalent to the DOS utility "docpmap /e" in functionality?
Anyone who can shed some light?

Shuh Chang


----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Radensky" <felix@allot.com>
To: "Linux-mtd" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: DOC problems on PowerPC


> Hi, all
>
> I was able to solve the DOC problems on PowerPC I've reported yesterday.
>
> All I had to do is to run "eraseall /dev/mtd0", then run "nftl_format
> /dev/mtd0"
> and  then create partitions with fdisk.
>
> Can someone please explain me the difference between eraseall and
> nftl_format.
> HOWTO says nothing about it.
>
> By the way, the latest mtd code would not compile, at least on my 2.4.2
> kernel
> unless you add #include <linux/kmod.h> to chipreg.c.  This is because of
>
> a call to request_module() in do_map_probe(), which IMHO should be
> under #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD, and not #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES.
>
>
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>

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-14 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-14 14:13 DOC problems on PowerPC Felix Radensky
2001-05-14 14:36 ` Shuh C Chang [this message]
2001-05-16  0:34 ` Ollie Lho

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