MTD - DOC 2000 freezes on umount

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 21:23 -0500, Mark Richards wrote:
> I've been through several good learning experiences getting my development
> system set up to work with a DOC 2000 for an embedded project.  I've finally
> settled on a RedHat 7.2 distribution and the 2.4.24 kernel.  All worked well
> with the MTD drivers in several other setups: RedHat 9, Mandrake 9.2, but
> for reasons I can't yet fathom, the MTD drivers seem a bit unstable in this
> particular kernel.
> 
> Most frequently when I perform a umount /mnt/doc (doc being the mount point)
> the shell session freezes (the umount command does not return a prompt).

Hit SysRq-P and/or SysRq-T to see precisely where it's locked up.


> I tried in one kernel build to apply the latest sources to my source tree
> using the instructions (and the shell script) but this caused a compile
> failure.  

Insufficient information to diagnose.

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