Michael, thank you for your reply and pardon my ignorance, On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kernel does not maintain /dev, ever. Times of devfs are long gone. > All nodes in your /dev are created in userspace. > but I see that the kernel creates /dev/ram[0..15], /dev/mtdblock[0..3], at least I see these mentioned in block/genhd.c:major_names[] - are these not devices created by kernel? Are you saying that I can't mount a CF card without initrd (or nfs mounted userland, etc.)? >>>> What needs to be done to get the device created and mapped to a >>>> generic CF card? >>> >>> You need to ensure you have SCSI_DISK support included (as CF is a disk) >>> and you need your initrd either to create device nodes, or to prepack >>> them. >> >> I don't see SCSI_DISK as a config option, can you please elaborate on >> this? > > It's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD. > thank you for the hint, let me try this... cheers, /vb > /mjt > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
