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David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sun Mar 17 05:32:29 EST 2002


zeusj at firstlinux.net said:
> >I note you don't have a set_vpp() method. Do you need one?
>  Sure, thanks! 

Does that mean adding one actually makes it work?

> and why the message show me that "Invalid ioctl 5401 (MEMGETINFO = 80204d01)

It's a debugging message. I think the ioctl changed at some point in the 
distant past, and it was added so we could tell when people were using old 
tools. Someone (usually cat) did an ioctl on the mtdchar device to see 
whether it was a tty. It wasn't. 

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