Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: patch to create sysfs char device nodes | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:25:41 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:14 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 6/9/05, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > with DEVFS going away I discovered that no character device nodes are > > created if a flash device is present which contains filesystems. The > > mtd-utils package requires the existence of character device nodes for > > performing erase, lock and unlock functions. The problem is that the > > flash device driver has not been modified to use sysfs instead of devfs. > > > > I have attached a patch to mtdchar.c which uses the sysfs interface to > > create the appropriate nodes. Please let me know if you have comments. > > I encountered the same problem days ago. Thanks for the patch. A patch > based on yours will be sent in the next mail.
A reworked patch is in the MTD CVS and in the mtd-git tree already. No need to send something
tglx
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