From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [203.134.126.54] (helo=mimesweeper.securenet.com.au) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 171zmp-0006EY-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 02:17:03 +0100 Received: from AMALTHEA.securenet.com.au (unverified) by mimesweeper.securenet.com.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:15:53 +1000 Message-ID: <3CCC9EC3.C233A4C2@securenet.com.au> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:15:47 +1000 From: John Weston MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Booting from /dev/mtdblock/0 References: <3CC862ED.5030007@yottayotta.com> <3CCC9A64.87F68E3@securenet.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms34778C69E5EC59AE4A246F4F" 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: This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms34778C69E5EC59AE4A246F4F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi again, Pardon my last message. Having looked up the mail archive found the solution there. Seems to be a problem calling the invalidate_device function call in the mtdblock.c code. Seems like I had better look harder next time. Thanks anyway. John Weston John Weston wrote: > G'day, > > Have not got to the bottom of this yet, but having the same problem. We had > a development board which worked fine using kernel version 2.4.3 but since > updating to 2.4.18 we are now seeing the same problem. > > Does anyone know of any required patches for this? > > Thanks > > John Weston > > Mutada Shah wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to boot from /dev/mtdblock/0 (root=/dev/mtdblock/0 in cmdline > > options) > > > > When I boot from nfs, I can mount /dev/mtdblock/0 no problem from > > command line & unmount etc. > > > > But if I pass it as the root= option, while booting it gets stuck. > > > > With mtd debug level to 3 I see that it tries mtdblock_open twice... > > which it shouldnt.. > > > > "mtdblock_open > > ok > > mtdblock_open > > mtdblock_release" > > > > Then it hangs here for a long time. > > What could be the cause? > > > > Murtada > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ --------------ms34778C69E5EC59AE4A246F4F Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; name="smime.p7s" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="smime.p7s" Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature MIIEXgYJKoZIhvcNAQcCoIIETzCCBEsCAQExCzAJBgUrDgMCGgUAMAsGCSqGSIb3DQEHAaCC ApgwggKUMIIBfKADAgECAgQF9eSxMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBAUAMCwxCzAJBgNVBAYTAmF1MR0w GwYDVQQKExRTZWN1cmVOZXQgQ0EgQ2xhc3MgQjAmFxEwMTExMTUwMDAwMDArMTAwMBcRMDMx MTE1MjM1OTU5KzEwMDAwaDELMAkGA1UEBhMCYXUxGjAYBgNVBAoTEVNlY3VyZU5ldCBMaW1p dGVkMRQwEgYDVQQDEwtKb2huIFdlc3RvbjEnMCUGCSqGSIb3DQEJARMYandlc3RvbkBzZWN1 cmVuZXQuY29tLmF1MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCvKX59ciAb54MqREhq 9kRQqJHuy06elXkVRJbTOB6BIZ7/WJZac114jU7di99N609ZZgg3A0IcCc9ttRQRsi74ZK+g dTHgv9wva6zhSrs2nRnDavGLOc3jwPEpZNtFNJrvoceKFZcrWLhNXujAjUrQh1GupQKSfnkV 3ifV2HHOiQIDAQABMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBAUAA4IBAQBz6zxBJgvnujFV4cdMEb0w0GIzmonO 8zu57V/FUhOGU9ggCy3OXJg/aX2nqNRVZfVJJ1kAp18ZxIzIeD+MymncLHj1Axw/B5K0odJJ JdP/qoB0IkunIYqnBLU9u4mfu90bE6zxDT+LmN7yZAVBC+V6ZSAJuupPBTEySbDIksKWIlOJ 5iCwAMX8QGnBFu/KUtbjJiM7gemdixU0A9N3PttzxjKqI25C/pz1Lx1leOKj+3TO0fMyF5xp vTi0H1Qgjh8GTUazpShtnAVuygtgVafzVnOUwTFsCYi7Yr7UlW3AVsMBEjUMaEqvzMX+nPNc G5yCwlSnifnxpyRqUTu1TpblMYIBjjCCAYoCAQEwNDAsMQswCQYDVQQGEwJhdTEdMBsGA1UE ChMUU2VjdXJlTmV0IENBIENsYXNzIEICBAX15LEwCQYFKw4DAhoFAKCBsTAYBgkqhkiG9w0B CQMxCwYJKoZIhvcNAQcBMBwGCSqGSIb3DQEJBTEPFw0wMjA0MjkwMTE1NDdaMCMGCSqGSIb3 DQEJBDEWBBTrh/hyXBhaaIAK99FWsN0hCpMi/DBSBgkqhkiG9w0BCQ8xRTBDMAoGCCqGSIb3 DQMHMA4GCCqGSIb3DQMCAgIAgDAHBgUrDgMCBzANBggqhkiG9w0DAgIBQDANBggqhkiG9w0D AgIBKDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASBgBEJuvul36YmeN0SIabyXb/PuZFo1jIDuVqlwxWXbtO3 y2Q8gu/1HUnajUwGMVtPzBDOyDqRljp3o2bN5KXfLnhxuBJ4rY2Cev+GbhXY29aBYqx3T6BJ 2EHWF6Vlp/+UF6l7uMFHKpyQejorodhMDKhMUug4tdyLoTpbhLcvLI8L --------------ms34778C69E5EC59AE4A246F4F--