patches to 2.4.18

[Jim Thompson]

Is the recommended course of action to simply replace the driver set
in 2.4.18 (or 2.4.19) with what is found at
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/mtd/cvs/

We're currently using
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mtd/mtd_20011217.orig.tar.gz,
but there seem to be a few... issues.

Also, I (like so many others lately), had to comment out the call to
invalidate_device() in mtdblock.c::mtdblock_release() in order to get
my root filesystem (jffs2 on mtdblock on Intel Strataflash) to mount.

I note that the call is still there in the CVS vsion:
  ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/mtd/cvs/mtd/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c

and we are getting crashes on halt/reboot if we've modified the
filesystem.

Similar questions about jffs2 have been asked:

	http://mhonarc.axis.se/jffs-dev/msg01297.html

With no apparent answer.

anyone with clue to offer?

Jim