From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from thorgal.et.tudelft.nl ([130.161.40.91]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22 #5 (Red Hat Linux)) id 19sjvT-0001lP-U7 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:08:31 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <024b01c36e35$62241600$a970a8c0@topo> References: <023501c36e31$81a4a610$a970a8c0@topo> <024b01c36e35$62241600$a970a8c0@topo> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:07:51 +0200 To: "Luca Contini" From: "J.D. Bakker" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: "linux-mtd-request@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: latest MTD snapshot List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , At 15:56 +0200 29-08-2003, Luca Contini wrote: > > At 15:28 +0200 29-08-2003, Luca Contini wrote: > > >What Am I missing? >> >> 1) Which kernel version ? > >2.4.18-rmk6-swl6 That's a pretty ancient kernel (almost 18 months old). You may want to retry with 2.4.21-rmk1 (works fine on the LART, which is also arm-based). > > 3) Any particular reason why you don't use the patchin.sh script ? I >> know, you 'only' need mtdblock, but partial installs tend to create >> no end of trouble. > >I just thought it was easiest to do it manually just for mtdblock device. >I've copied the snapshot to ../linux/drivers/mtd/util/snapshot and tried the >patchin.sh: >[root@Lab patches]# patchin.sh >Directory does not exist or is not a kernel source directory You must give it the path to your kernel tree as an argument (as documented on http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/). HTH, JDB. -- LART. 250 MIPS under one Watt. Free hardware design files. http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/