Re: latest MTD snapshot

J.D. Bakker
2003-08-29T14:08:31Z

At 15:56 +0200 29-08-2003, Luca Contini wrote:
> > At 15:28 +0200 29-08-2003, Luca Contini wrote:
> > >What Am I missing?
>>
>> 1) Which kernel version ?
>
>2.4.18-rmk6-swl6

That's a pretty ancient kernel (almost 18 months old). You may want
to retry with 2.4.21-rmk1 (works fine on the LART, which is also
arm-based).

> > 3) Any particular reason why you don't use the patchin.sh script ? I
>> know, you 'only' need mtdblock, but partial installs tend to create
>> no end of trouble.
>
>I just thought it was easiest to do it manually just for mtdblock device.
>I've copied the snapshot to ../linux/drivers/mtd/util/snapshot and tried the
>patchin.sh:
>[root@Lab patches]# patchin.sh
>Directory does not exist or is not a kernel source directory

You must give it the path to your kernel tree as an argument (as
documented on http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/).

HTH,

JDB.
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