problem with mtdblock dev entries over 9
I'm using the 2.4.x version of the MTD cvs.
I recently created over 9 MTD partitions and I noticed that /dev/mtdblock had incorrect names for entries 10 and 11 instead they were ":" and ";". The /dev/mtd directory was OK though.
e.g
/root # ll /dev/mtdblock
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 ./ drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 ../ brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 0 Jan 1 1970 0 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 1 Jan 1 1970 1 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 2 Jan 1 1970 2 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 3 Jan 1 1970 3 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 4 Jan 1 1970 4 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 5 Jan 1 1970 5 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 6 Jan 1 1970 6 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 7 Jan 1 1970 7 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 8 Jan 1 1970 8 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 9 Jan 1 1970 9 brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 10 Jan 1 1970 : brw-rw-rw- 1 root root 31, 11 Jan 1 1970 ;
solution (assuming number of partitions does not exceed 99!):
mtd/mtd_blkdevs-24.c 2004-12-06 13:35:25.443099904 +1100 renamed from mtd/mtd_blkdevs-24.c.orig 2004-12-06 13:29:21.568417264 +1100 +2 -3
@@ -476,10 +476,9 @@ } #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS if (!tr->part_bits) { - char name[2]; + char name[3]; - name[0] = '0' + new->devnum; - name[1] = 0; + sprintf( name, "%d", new->devnum ); new->blkcore_priv = devfs_register(tr->blkcore_priv->devfs_dir_handle,
regards,
Aras Vaichas