From: Niraj Maheshwari <niraj.maheshwari@gmail.com>
To: "C. Michael Sundius" <msundius@sundius.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: utilities for mtd
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:27:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6d0cd06050227235769c791c8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f065e28ae2a88eda8f37b9c40f54ed2@sundius.com>
Hi,
I think you must have tried flash_erase on a block device
(/dec/mtdblock0) but flash_erase will work only for Char Device. So
you can create a char MTD device by giving below commands.
mknod /dev/mtd0 c 90 0
Now try the flash_erase command, it should work.
Regds
Niraj
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:34:34 -0800, C. Michael Sundius
<msundius@sundius.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using a the mtd code from the 2.4.20 kernel. how/where do I get
> the corresponding utilities
> such as flash_erase, flash_lock etc... I grabbed a random version of
> them somewhere and it
> didn't seem to work.. for one the flash_erase program calls an ioctl
> "MEMGETREGIONCOUNT"
> and my kernel returned:
> in appropriate ioctl for this device....
>
> any help is appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> C Michael Sundius
> Solico Group LLC
> 232 Nevada St
> San Francisco, CA 94110
> msundius@sundius.com
> (415)608-0121
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2005-02-24 19:34 utilities for mtd C. Michael Sundius
2005-02-28 7:57 ` Niraj Maheshwari [this message]
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