From: Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>
To: Bernhard Priewasser <priewasser@gmail.com>
Cc: MTD mailing list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: /dev/mtd* not there with latest MTD
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:13:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434E8799.2000203@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434E7211.6020709@gmail.com>
Bernhard Priewasser wrote:
> But: there is no /dev/mtd* or /dev/mtdblock* at all!
> There are no changes to u-boot or some other kernel config, only the new
> MTD source.
>
> Patching the kernel with 2005-06-21 CVS results in having only
> /dev/mtdblock*, but no /dev/mtd*!..... very confusing.
You're probably using devfs to automatically create device nodes, which
is on its way out. udev is the way recent 2.6 kernels do this
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html
--
Todd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-13 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-13 14:41 /dev/mtd* not there with latest MTD Bernhard Priewasser
2005-10-13 16:13 ` Todd Poynor [this message]
2005-10-14 10:38 ` Bernhard Priewasser
2005-10-14 6:25 ` Holger Schurig
2005-10-24 13:30 ` Bernhard Priewasser
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