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Subject: Re: inappropriate ioctl when attaching
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 18:17 +0200, David Wagner wrote:
> # ubiattach -p /dev/mtd2
> ubiattach: error!: cannot attach "/dev/mtd2"
>            error 25 (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> 
> I've never seen this and google doesn't help much. I could flash a jffs2
> image w/o problem.
> 
> Does anybody have a pointer != NULL ?

This probably means you are using too kernel where UBI does not support
this ioctl. Dynamic attach / detach were not part of the initial UBI
which want into the kernel, AFAIR.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)