Oops on rmmod mtdblock module while in dev dir.

Josh Boyer jdub at us.ibm.com
Tue May 31 11:55:33 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:51 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:25 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Thats not a problem of mtd. Its a problem of sysfs/devfs
> 
> IIRC it's because we register more than one gendisk with the same major.

It's even more complicated when working with partitions.  A MTD
partition is actually a whole new device to MTD, whereas a partition in
general block terms is just a subset of a particular device.  Things in
this area need some help.

josh





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