[oe] RFC: stop mounting /dev/mtdblockX but mount mtdX (without/dev) instead

[Mark Gollahon]

So how does this change the "root=" kernel command line
parameter?  Would it now be "root=mtdX"?

Regards,
-Mark Gollahon


Koen Kooi wrote ..
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> Hi,
> 
> Chris Ball from the OLPC project was kind (and patient) enough
> to explain the first item of
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/archive/tech/faq.html to me.
> 
> It seems that most machines in OE with MTD have something like:
> 
> /dev/mtdblock2  /             jffs2   defaults        1  1
> /dev/mtdblock3  /home   	jffs2   defaults        1  1
> 
> in their fstab, which apparently is wrong. The trick to
> understanding the FAQ entry is not to think in terms of actual
> devices and controllers, but in terms of fstab.  So 'block
> devices' translate to the emulated block devices present as
> /dev/mtdblockX and 'mtd' refers to mtdX.
> 
> The correct fstab should be:
> 
> mtd2  /         jffs2   defaults        1  1
> mtd3  /home     jffs2   defaults        1  1
> 
> I don't know which kernel version introduced it, but it seems
> to work on 2.6.16.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
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