From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16mXmg-0000Y2-00 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:21:02 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <20020317102159.145E2274E@sitemail.everyone.net> References: <20020317102159.145E2274E@sitemail.everyone.net> To: zeusj@firstlinux.net Cc: all in MTD mailinglist Subject: Re: (no subject) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 10:32:29 +0000 Message-ID: <29360.1016361149@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: zeusj@firstlinux.net said: > >I note you don't have a set_vpp() method. Do you need one? > Sure, thanks! Does that mean adding one actually makes it work? > and why the message show me that "Invalid ioctl 5401 (MEMGETINFO = 80204d01) It's a debugging message. I think the ioctl changed at some point in the distant past, and it was added so we could tell when people were using old tools. Someone (usually cat) did an ioctl on the mtdchar device to see whether it was a tty. It wasn't. -- dwmw2