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Subject: Re: question about node creation /dev/mtd*
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 06:44 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:42:39 +0530
> vicky <vicky.irobot@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I have enabled mtd in my config. When I boot from the updated kernel I=20
> > find that /dev/mtdblock is not created?
> >=20
> > How does the /dev/mtdblock get created? I didn't find this in the=20
> > init/rcs script. I am under an impression that once the mtd is enabled=20
> > in the linux
> > config file the creation of the corresponding node is taken care in som=
e=20
> > script.
>=20
> You need to either have udev running, or create it manually yourself
> with mknod (which can be done via a script you write). This is, of
> course, assuming you have the mtdblock module loaded or compiled into
> your kernel.

udev will not help because MTD is not Linux Device Model-enabled, so
only ancient manual device node creation method may be used. There is a
MAKEDEV script in mtd-utils.git which may help.

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)